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  • Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies

    Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882–1943

    Edited by Simona Berhe, Olindo De Napoli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood. Such a topic is crucial for understanding both Italian imperial rule and the complex dynamics of the different colonial societies where several actors, like notables, political leaders, minorities, etc., were involved.The chapters gathered in the book constitute an unprecedented ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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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

    $9.99 USD

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  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Once Within Borders

    Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

    by Charles S. Maier ...
    Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Liberty of Servants

    Berlusconi's Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    A compelling look at how a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressedItaly is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Brokering Empire

    Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

    by E. Natalie Rothman ...
    In Brokering Empire**, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters.** In their sustained interactions across linguistic, religious, and political lines these trans-imperial subjects helped ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Dragoman Renaissance

    Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism

    by E. Natalie Rothman ...
    In The Dragoman Renaissance**, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire—eventually coalescing in the discipline of Orientalism—throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.**Rothman challenges Eurocentric assumptions still pervasive in Renaissance studies ... Read more

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  • Mediterranean Crossings

    The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

    by Iain Chambers ...
    The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Mediterraneans

    North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900

    by Julia A. Clancy-Smith ...
    Series Book 15 - California World History Library
    Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. In a vibrant examination of people in motion, Julia A. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Cultures of Italian Migration

    Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives

    Edited by Graziella Parati, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...
    The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like "home," "identity," "subjectivity," and "otherness" eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Moderns Abroad

    Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

    by Mia Fuller ...
    Series series Architext
    This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colonized, and also the application of modernist theory ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Italian Empire and the Great War

    by Vanda Wilcox ...
    Series series The Greater War
    The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and its conquest of Libya in 1911–12. The Italian empire was conceived both as a system of overseas colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD