Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Italy

This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-war years as case studies: Italy, Britain and Norway. It explores how fascist ideology was the result of a sustained struggle between competing internal factions, which created a precarious, but also highly dynamic, balance between revolutionary/totalitarian and conservative/authoritarian tendencies. Such a balance meant that these movements were hybrids with a surprising degree of internal...

This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the profound impact that events on the border had on the core of the country.

This new edition of Peter Neville's Mussolini traces and analyses the life of one of the most fascinating twentieth century European dictators, Benito Mussolini, while placing his life in its historic Italian context. Engaging and accessible, the Duce's career is traced from his roots as a journalist and socialist to his capture and execution in 1945, addressing crucial issues throughout: was Mussolini really a far right ideologist, or simply a political opportunist? How successful was he at communicating his core beliefs to the Italian people?

This thoroughly...

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one of the most important political and cultural innovations of the medieval world.

Chris Wickham provides richly textured portraits of three cities--Milan, Pisa, and Rome--and sets them against a vibrant backcloth of other towns. He argues that, in...

In der 1905 begrundeten Reihe Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom erscheinen wissenschaftliche Monographien und Aufsatzbande zur italienischen und deutschen Geschichte vom fruhen Mittelalter bis zur jungsten Vergangenheit.

Die Monarchen der vier unabhangigen italienischen Flachenstaaten erlieen 1848 Verfassungen, bevor Europa von Revolution erfasst wurde. Nur das Statuto Albertino behielt uber den historischen Moment hinaus Gultigkeit und ging als spatere Verfassung des Konigreiches Italien in die Geschichte ein. Eine intensive und alle Schwesterverfassungen gleichermaen einbeziehende Bearbeitung unter systematischer Verwendung von Archivmaterial fehlte bislang nicht nur in deutscher Sprache. In Italien wird 1848/49 vorwiegend als Unabhangigkeitskrieg und Vorstufe zur Nationalstaatsbildung erinnert...

Die meisten mittelalterlichen Dokumente aus Italien wurden von Notaren geschrieben. Diese Studie stellt daher die Produzenten dieser Schriftquellen ins Zentrum. Im Gegensatz zur bisherigen Forschung, welche die Geschichte des Notariats jeweils nur fur eine Stadt nachzeichnete und die urkundliche Uberlieferung blo am Rande beizog, werden hier erstmals die Entwicklungslinien in allen Teilen des Regnum Italiae aufgezeigt und das vorhandene normative und dokumentarische Quellenmaterial in seiner ganzen Breite verwendet. Aus dieser Perspektive losen die Toskana und besonders Lucca Genua und...

Am 18.12.1935 fand in Italien die wohl aufwendigste Selbstinszenierung des faschistischen Regimes statt. Im Zuge einer beispiellosen Spendenaktion zur Finanzierung des Athiopienkrieges waren italienische Paare, besonders aber die Frauen dazu aufgerufen, mit dem Austausch ihrer goldenen Eheringe gegen einen wertlosen, aber kirchlich gesegneten Ersatz ihre Treue zum Faschismus unter Beweis zu stellen. Millionen leisteten dem Appell Folge. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet erstmals die Hintergrunde dieses bemerkenswerten Geschehens. Dabei wird das kollektive Eheringopfer als Schlusselereignis...

Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today's celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story of a well-known patron of arts and music in Renaissance Italy, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua (1562-1612), to examine the culture, fears, and captivations of his times. Using four notorious moments in Vincenzo's life, Finucci explores changing concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and...

Founded by Cosimo de' Medici in the early 1460s, the Platonic Academy shaped the literary and artistic culture of Florence in the later Renaissance and influenced science, religion, art, and literature throughout Europe in the early modern period. This major study of the Academy's beginnings presents a fresh view of the intellectual and cultural life of Florence from the Peace of Lodi of 1454 to the death of Cosimo a decade later. Challenging commonly held assumptions about the period, Arthur Field insists that the Academy was not a hothouse plant, grown and kept alive by the Medici in the...