Nell'ottocento
Author : Ernesto Masi
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Italy
ISBN :
At the Roots of Italian Identity
Author : Edoardo Marcello Barsotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1000331377
Book Description
This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian Risorgimento and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity. The author argues that the racialization of the Italians dates back to the early Napoleonic age and that naturalistic racialism—or race-thinking based on the taxonomies of the natural history of man—emerged well before the traditionally presumed date of the late 1860s and the advent of positivist anthropology. The book draws upon a wide number of sources including the work of Vincenzo Cuoco, Giuseppe Micali, Adriano Balbi, Alessanro Manzoni, Giandomenico Romagnosi, Cesare Balbo, Vincenzo Gioberti, and Carlo Cattaneo. Themes explored include links to antiquity on the Italian peninsula, archaeology, and race-thinking.
Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History
Author : Nicoleta Roman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1351628836
Book Description
In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the issue, but can we trace any change over the course of time when it comes to the welfare system intended for these disadvantaged children and acts of philanthropy? What kind of social policies did States follow and what were the main differences between countries and regions? Drawing on historical evidence across several centuries and a range of European countries, the contributors to this volume provide a transnational overview.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies
Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2256 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135455309
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71
Author : Monika Poettinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1350013994
Book Description
This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation. Covering various aspects of politics, economics, culture and society, this book examines the impact that the short-lived experience of becoming the political and administrative centre of the Kingdom of Italy had on the Tuscan city, both immediately and in the years that followed. It reflects upon the urbanising changes that affected the appearance of the city and the introduction of various economic and cultural innovations. The volume also analyses the crisis caused by the eventual relocation of the capital to Rome and the subsequent bankruptcy of the communality which hampered Florence on the long road to modernity. Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71 is a fascinating study for all students and scholars of modern Italian history.
Accidental Orientalists
Author : Barbara Spackman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1786940205
Book Description
This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.
Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War
Author : Barbara Curli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 3030882551
Book Description
Conceived in the 1850s and opened to navigation in 1869, the Suez Canal’s construction coincided with Italy’s path to unification and its first foray into nineteenth-century globalization. Since then, the history of Italy and the Canal have intertwined in many ways, throughout in peace and war. This edited collection explores the fundamental technical, diplomatic and financial contributions that Italy made to the production of the Canal and to its subsequent development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cold War. Drawing from unpublished public and private archival sources, this book is the first comprehensive account of this long and multifaceted relationship, providing innovative perspectives on Italy’s diplomatic, economic, social, colonial and cultural history. An insightful read for those studying maritime, diplomatic or Italian history, this book contributes to a growing body of research on the Canal, which has largely emerged from international business, labour and social history, and offers new insights into the Euro-Mediterranean region.
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
Author : M. Broers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1137271396
Book Description
Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
The Neapolitan Creative Economy
Author : Rossella Del Prete
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031559037
Book Description
Property Rights in Land
Author : Rosa Congost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315439948
Book Description
Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development. As neo-institutional development theory has become a narrative in global history and political economy, the problem of promoting global development has arisen from creating the conditions for ‘good’ institutions to take root in the global economy and in developing societies. Written by a collection of expert authors, the chapters delve into social processes through which property relations became institutionalized and were used in social action for the appropriation of resources and rent. This was in order to gain a better understanding of the social processes intervening between the institutionalized ‘rules of the game’ and their economic and social outcomes. This collection of essays is of great interest to those who study economic history, historical sociology and economic sociology, as well as Agrarian and rural history.
