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  • Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War

    A Mediterranean History

    Edited by Barbara Curli ...
    Conceived in the 1850s and opened to navigation in 1869, the Suez Canal’s construction coincided with Italy’s path to unification and its first foray into nineteenth-century globalization. Since then, the history of Italy and the Canal have intertwined in many ways, throughout in peace and war. This edited collection explores the fundamental technical, diplomatic and financial contributions that ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe

    From the Enlightenment to the EU

    Edited by Manuela Ceretta, Barbara Curli ...
    Series series Critical European Studies
    The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations – their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political, and economic historical relations emerging at the founding of European states and then substantially augmented in the Post-WWII era. Any ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The New Old World

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Italy in International Relations

    The Foreign Policy Conundrum

    by Emidio Diodato, Federico Niglia ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book aims to provide an overview of Italian foreign policy from the moment of unification to the establishment of the European Union. Three turning points are crucial in order to clarify Italy’s foreign policy: 1861, the proclamation of the Italian Kingdom; 1943, when Italy surrendered in World War II; 1992, the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. The international position of Italy continues ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Dictionary of Homophobia

    A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

    Edited by Louis-Georges Tin ...
    "Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City NewsBased on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobiais a mammoth, encyclopedic book that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

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  • Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

    The Civilization of War

    Edited by Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life ... Read more

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  • Postcoloniality

    The French Dimension

    by Margaret A. Majumdar ...
    “Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Italy

    A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . an enduring tribute." —Ian Thomas, Evening StandardOne of The Economist 's Books of the YearDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The quest... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • White Thinking

    'Profound' The Sunday Times

    by Lilian Thuram ...
    Translated by David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cristina Johnston ...
    'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

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  • On the Rural

    Economy, Sociology, Geography

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social ... Read more

    $21.99 USD