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The book aims rethinking the cultural history of Mediterranean nationalisms between 19th and 20th centuries by tracing their specific approach to antiquity in the forging of a national past. By focusing on how national imaginaries dealt with this topic and how history and archaeology relied on antiquity, this collection of essays introduces a comparative approach presenting several cases studies concerning many regions including Spain, Italy and Slovenia as well as Albania, Greece and Turkey. By adopting the perspective of a dialogue among all these Mediterranean political cultures, this book...

With Italy under Napoleonic rule at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the antiquarian topic of anti-romanism became a pillar of the Italian nation-building process and, in turn, was used against the dominant French culture. The history of the Italian nation predating the Roman Empire supported the idea of an Italian cultural primacy and proved crucial in the creation of modern Italian nationalism. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Italian studies of Roman history would drape a dark veil over the earliest history of Italy while Fascism openly claimed the legacy of the Roman...

Nell'attuale fase storica e necessario limitare il consumo di suolo agricolo per focalizzare l'attenzione verso il recupero dei "vuoti urbani." A questo fine e necessario creare "infrastrutture di nuova generazione" che possano "invertire la direzione dello sviluppo." Il Tevere e ripensato in questa luce attraverso cinque principi fondamentali che vanno dalla multifunzionalita alla presenza di sistemi ecologici, dalla mobilita alla presenza di reti informatiche al rilancio del ruolo civico e simbolico del fiume. Il volume ripercorrere l'intero approccio al progetto denominato "Tevere cavo,"...

This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future. By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which...