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The Sardinian Cookbook
The Cooking and Culture of a Mediterranean Island
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Sardinia, the isolated and majestic island off the southwest coast of Italy, has a rich and ancient history as home to different Mediterranean peoples whose customs have intertwined over the centuries. The result is an unparalleled richness of cuisine. The Sardinian Cookbook captures these wonderful...
by Nicola Tarallo
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
Traditional dessert recipes from Gaeta, Italy. Create a little Italian cheer with these authentic family dessert recipes, passed down from generation to generation. Start your day with Ciambellone spread with jam, or wow your family and friends with a light and airy Tiramisu. Make your holidays more...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Often called the Switzerland of the South, Calabria covers the mountainous toe of Italy. Here one finds the most beautiful forests, and the hillsides are covered with the white leaves of ancient olive trees.
Traveling between the Calabrian mountains, in a vast land of magnificent beauty, you...
The Risotto Guru
Adventures in Eating Italian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
NYT-bestselling author Laura Fraser journeys from the SpaghettiOs of her American childhood to savor the best of Italian cuisine and the culture that cooked it up. Using the same dreamy, delicious prose that made An Italian Affair a best-selling memoir, these essays will delight readers who loved...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
David Herbert Lawrence, the famous English writer, loved Italy. He traveled through it far and wide, often on foot.
Sardinia inspired him, and he dedicated his excellent book to it, "Sea and Sardinia," where he wrote: "Sardinia is left outside of time and history."
Of course, nowhere...
by Eliot Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sardinia: Cagliari and the South will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:
• Essentials section with tips on getting...
Seeking Sicily
A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
"Keahey's exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land."—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun
Sicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one...
Genoa, 'La Superba'
The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world. It fought bitter battles with its great rival Venice and imprisoned Marco Polo, as the feuding city-states connected Europe...
Cultures of Charity
Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
Mussolini's Decennale
Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s March on Rome, was fascism’s Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism’s seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime.
In...
Mussolini's Intellectuals
Fascist Social and Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in...
Capri & Amalfi Coast Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Capri is a small but upmarket Italian island of great natural beauty in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Situated off the coast of Naples, Capri is rich in history and the island has become one of main tourist destinations in Italy. Nearby, the Amalfi Coast is a series of cliffside Italian fishing towns...
by Footprint Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sorrento, Capri & Amalfi Coast will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:
• Essentials section with tips on...
by Joshua Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Corfu, Greece. Corfu is the northernmost of the Ionian Islands in Greece. Located off the far northwest coast of Greece, Corfu lies in the Adriatic sea, east of Italy and southwest of Albania. Historically Corfu has been controlled by many foreign powers,...