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  • Moderns Abroad

    Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

    af Mia Fuller ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    599,14 kr.

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  • Venice

    History of the Floating City

    This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural centre. Incorporating recent scholarly insights, the ... Læs mere

    269,50 kr.

  • Left and Right

    The Significance of a Political Distinction

    Serier serie Themes for the 21st Century
    Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten.In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two ... Læs mere

    139,86 kr.

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    Serier serie Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Læs mere

    282,99 kr.

  • Sport Italia

    The Italian Love Affair with Sport

    The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely ... Læs mere

    391,74 kr.

  • Fumo

    Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette

    For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history. Starting around 1900, the new and popular cigarette spread down the social hierarchy and eventually, during the 1960s, across the gender divide. For much of the century, cigarette consumption was an ... Læs mere

    237,79 kr.

  • Porta Palazzo

    The Anthropology of an Italian Market

    Serier serie Contemporary Ethnography
    Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time—traditional markets are no longer the primary place to buy food—they remain popular destinations. In an age of ... Læs mere

    236,74 kr.

  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Læs mere

    295,49 kr.

  • Reversible Destiny

    Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

    Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition ... Læs mere

    277,03 kr.

  • The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence

    Revolution and Restoration

    Serier serie Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection with the society at large. The BR’s worldview and the dominant ideology(ies) ... Læs mere

    460,03 kr.

  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

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    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Læs mere

    491,49 kr.

  • Printing a Mediterranean World

    Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography

    af Sean Roberts ...
    Serier Bog 7 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on ... Læs mere

    507,29 kr.