The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies
Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Naples (Kingdom)
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1904
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Arts
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Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199981485
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del Riego, General Guglielmo Pepe, General Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Colonel Sergei Muraviev-Apostol--all hoped to overturn the old order. Over the next six years, their revolutions ended in failure. The men who led them became martyrs. In The Four Horsemen, the late, eminent historian Richard Stites offers a compelling narrative history of these four revolutions. Stites sets the stories side by side, allowing him to compare events and movements and so illuminate such topics as the transfer of ideas and peoples across frontiers, the formation of an international community of revolutionaries, and the appropriation of Christian symbols and language for secular purposes. He shows how expressive behavior and artifacts of all kinds--art, popular festivities, propaganda, and religion--worked their way to various degrees into all the revolutionary movements and regimes. And he documents as well the corruption, abandonment of liberal values, and outright betrayal of the revolution that emerged in Spain and Naples; the clash of ambitions and ideas that wracked the unity of the Decembrists' cause; and civil war that erupted in the midst of the Greek struggle for independence. Richard Stites was one of the most imaginative and broad-ranging historians working in the United States. This book is his last work, a classic example of his dazzling knowledge and idiosyncratic yet accessible writing style. The culmination of an esteemed career, The Four Horsemen promises to enthrall anyone interested in nineteenth-century Europe and the history of revolutions.
Author : VD Mahajan
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9788121903387
For Students of B.A, M.A and also useful for competitive examinations
Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
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Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic journals
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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198269196
This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the Papacy and through it the Church at large.
Author : Michael A. Ledeen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1351297260
Savvy Italians will tell you that Neapolitans are considered the cleverest, most imaginative, most romantic, and the most entertaining people in the country. The world's finest men's fashions are Neapolitan, Italy's most celebrated popular songs and a high proportion of popular and operatic singers are Neapolitan—starting with Enrico Caruso. Sophia Loren and Toto are famously Neapolitan. Divorce Italian Style and Marriage Italian Style were based on plays written by the great Neapolitan Eduardo de Filippo. If you check the Italian literary awards year after year, you will find an amazingly high proportion of Neapolitans walking off with the highest honors. Naples has been a great creative center for hundreds of years. Neapolitan creativity has survived centuries of foreign occupation, widespread misery, the end of its role as a great capital city, repeated natural catastrophes, and terrible epidemics. What accounts for the creativity of Naples? The sorcerer Virgil is said to have created a Golden Egg, inside a crystal sphere, to save Naples from natural catastrophe. The egg, locked in an iron cage, was buried beneath a castle—still known as the "Egg Castle"—to give it stability and to give eternal life to Naples. Michael Ledeen suggests some surprising answers in a highly original exploration of Neapolitan life and death that ranges from religion to organized crime, war and violence. His deep affection for this remarkable city and its people is evident on every page.