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The Italian giallo was a sleazy, violent, and stylistically baroque form of horror film that was produced in great numbe......more

Based on extensive new material, much of it unpublished, by and about Sartre from archives across Europe, this book expl......more

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The Golden Age of Italian Jews covers nine decades, 1848-1938, during which Italian Jews rose from the ghetto to acquire......more

A fresh narrative history of the rise of Rome’s empire in Italy, that exposes the monumental expansion of the Roman fami......more

Using a transnational approach to the intellectual history of 19th-century Italy, this book examines the highly idiosync......more

Venice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The ach......more

Venice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The ach......more

A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period In the interwar years, the......more

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English-language historiography traditionally disregards Italian military history with sweeping generalizations about in......more

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"This new edition of Fashion under Fascism expands the work of Eugenia Paulicelli’s classic text - and includes updated ......more

African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the l......more

The Lombards will examine the history, society and warfare of the tribe of barabrians that first entered Italy in the 6......more

Today anyone can walk along Via Veneto in Rome and experience Italy’s famed La Dolce Vita. However, it was once private ......more

People the world over aspire to self-rule, especially when living under domination, conquest, and empire. Inspired by th......more

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, explori......more

This research volume reassesses one of the most fundamental transformations in Late Antiquity, centered on a pivotal reg......more

This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gra......more

This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gra......more

This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the ’......more

Unlike in the United Kingdom and France, where fashion during the Second World War is extensively debated, in Italy it i......more

Created as a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Italian Civil Code, the current volume presents a theoretical mo......more

- This hardback edition brings together its three volumes in one, The Middles Ages to the Seventeenth Century, The Eight......more

Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards focuses on enormous amounts of scu......more

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging ......more

This collection of classic texts offers a longitudinal overview of the Italian mafia through the eyes of those who have ......more

During the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a femi......more

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the ......more

This book uncovers how fascism reshaped Italian society according to its ideological and historical interpretation of th......more

This is the second volume in Luigino Caliaro’s trilogy on the main Italian fighter types to see service in the Second Wo......more

The SAS is the most famous regiment in the world and the subject of countless books, documentaries and TV dramas, includ......more

Hold the glory--and infamy--of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand in this extraordinary and accessible story of histo......more

Hold the glory--and infamy--of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand in this extraordinary and accessible story of histo......more

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The Science of Naples highlights the importance of Naples in the history of science, exploring the city’s contribution t......more

The Science of Naples highlights the importance of Naples in the history of science, exploring the city’s contribution t......more

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This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body ......more

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body ......more

Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieve......more

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century Eu......more

Importing Fascism analyses the mechanisms of the Italian fascist regime in incorporating the Italian-Scottish diaspora i......more

The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, socio-cultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the......more

Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence throug......more

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Several studies have been devoted to the flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ’siglo de los Genoveses......more

Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the ......more

The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intel......more

First published in 1977, The Politics of the Italian Army provides a comprehensive overview of the role played by the ar......more

A new examination of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Good and Bad Government through the lens of the Hymn to Justice. In 1338 Ambr......more

An examination of Italy’s disastrous military failures and internal political intrigues during WWII. In the late 1930s, ......more

This volume is the first comprehensive account in the English language that addresses the genesis, organization and oper......more

On the Paths of Prehistory presents research on the settlements of the area of Milena in central-southern Sicily (Italy)......more

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the technical corps during the Napoleonic Era, both in France and in......more

It is almost impossible to imagine the United States without making reference to Italy. There is scarcely any aspect of ......more

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political str......more

This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the I......more

Explores the controversial 1944 destruction of the Montecassino Abbey, questioning the motives behind such wartime decis......more

This vibrant narrative chronicles the Italian Americans of Los Angeles, a group that, although integral to every facet o......more

The thirty chapters in this book are based on the work of an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers and ar......more

In the 1920s and 1930s, the entire process of renovation of the cultural institutions conducted by the Fascists, impleme......more

Uncover the origin, development, and spread of the worldwide well-known criminal organization in the world. The Italian ......more

Analyzes the principal Italian military operations in East Africa, with particular focus on the period between 1940 and ......more

This book fills a gap in the literature of military history on the Napoleonic Wars, providing some background to what ma......more

The first comprehensive history of an Italian revolutionary group that fought fascism in interwar Europe and pursued a l......more

Detention camps exceed the juridical concept of punishment and crime. This book comprises two parts: 1. a collected volu......more

Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called "military anarchy" (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severi......more

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century It......more

Though Venice emerged as a leading Mediterranean power in the Trecento, the city faced a series of crises during a brief......more

The statue-stelae of Early Iron Age Daunia (north Apulia, Italy), a group of stone slabs, are each incised to represent ......more