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  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

    Was $82.99 USD Now $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

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    A Mediterranean History

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    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

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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

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  • A Brief History of Italy

    Indispensable for Travellers

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    '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

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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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  • Mussolini's Italy

    Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...
    With Mussolini s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth-the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English-vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centurys most notorious political experiments. Il Duces Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitlers first among them. But as ... Read more

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  • The Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama

    A Book of Quotations

    by Barack Obama ...
    Quotes captures your subconscious mind, which forms 90% of your total mind. The subconscious mind is the creative mind. So, when it is frequently filled with positive commands it will bring an overall change in your overall personality.Most of the quotes will hardly take you 10-20 seconds to swallow. However the message contained in these quotes are quite heavy, which will be sufficient for months ... Read more

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  • Amedeo

    The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia

    by Sebastian O’Kelly ...
    War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini’s army to establish and command a troupe of 2,000 Spahis – or Arabic calvary. He met and fell in love with Khadija – a beautiful ... Read more

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