Italy category: 3604 books
Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)
Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize
By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Italy is located on the Apennine peninsula and the continental areas just north of it, approximately to the main waters of the Alps as well as Sicily, Sardinia and a number of smaller islands. Italy has a lot to offer for tourists, from sandy beaches, catholic churches and snowy ski resorts. So don't wait get your ultimate Guide to Italy and enjoy your trip.
by Perry Willson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, the rapid transformation of Italy from an impoverished, predominantly agricultural nation to one of the strongest economies in the world forged a fascinating and contradictory society where gender relations were a particular mix of modernity and tradition. In...
by Dr Claudia Baldoli
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Until the beginning of the eighteenth century, to be 'Italian' meant to identify with a number of collective memories, rather than a national memory. Yet there are elements of continuity that have shaped Italian identity over the past 1,500 years. Religion, food, art and architecture, a literary language,...
America in Italy
The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel Körner shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution...
Emilia-Romagna Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Italy with the Emilia-Romagna Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Italy Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
Catholicism in Modern Italy
Religion, Society and Politics since 1861
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to the book is the complex set of relationships between traditional religion and the forces of change. In a broad sweep, Catholicism in Modern Italy looks...
“Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy
Anatomies of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
As the 19th century drew to a close, France and Italy experienced an explosion of crime, vagrancy, insanity, neurosis and sexual deviance. “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy examines how the raft of self-appointed experts that subsequently emerged tried to explain this aberrant behavior...
Lucca Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Italy with the Lucca Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Italy Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...
Milan Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Italy with the Milan Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Italy Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...
Italy and the Mediterranean
Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national and regional identities have evolved within a globalized context. This interdisciplinary volume puts Italian artists...
by Tara Castelli Felice
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Italy is a land of fire with some of the most active volcanoes in the world.
To have a walk through Southern Italy is a little bit like diving in a postcard.
The landscapes are simply breathtaking!
The South has a...
by Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In the Middle Ages Italy was occupied by a vast number of political communities, some large, others very small, some self-governing, some under despotic rule. These small states were forever contending with each other, often to the death, for independence, or increase of territory,...
Genoa Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Italy with the Genoa Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Italy Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...