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  • A History of Italian Colonialism 1914-1919

    The Promised Land: Volume II

    by Giuseppe Finaldi ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the outbreak of the First World War to the first stirrings of Fascism in 1919.Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, this second volume moves between Rome and the Alps, Libya, East Africa and beyond to tell of an Italy struggling to profile itself as an empire while it fought out the First World War. It recounts how ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • A History of Italian Colonialism 1900-1914

    The Promised Land: Volume I

    by Giuseppe Finaldi ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.This first volume engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change in Italy resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, it tells the story of a nation bent on ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Mussolini and Italian Fascism

    by Giuseppe Finaldi ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th and early 20th century came to a head. Mussolini, the man who most fashioned Italian Fascism, dramatically expressed the unease and the hopes of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907

    Europe’s Last Empire

    by Giuseppe Finaldi ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Totalitarian Dictatorship

    New Histories

    Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele, Giuseppe Finaldi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples

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    The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in EnglishThe Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Sicily

    A Mediterranean History

    by Jamie Mackay ...
    Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture.A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Force of Destiny

    A History of Italy Since 1796

    by Christopher Duggan ...
    The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. The Force of Destiny, Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to this idea. While sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he strongly distinguishes this ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Agents of Empire

    Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

    by Noel Malcolm ...
    In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Italy

    Indispensable for Travellers

    by Jeremy Black ...
    'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience'Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military HistoryDespite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Mussolini's War

    Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

    by John Gooch ...
    WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies ... Read more

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  • Blood and Power

    The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

    by John Foot ...
    'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war.In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians ... Read more

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