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  • La bandiera della Repubblica italiana

    Storia del tricolore

    Series series Biblioteca Italia
    L'opuscolo - destinato essenzialmente ai ragazzi e realizzato dal Senato in occasione della festa del 2 giugno - presenta in maniera sintetica i momenti salienti della storia della nostra bandiera. ... Read more

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  • Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages

    During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some rulers such as Charlemagne strove for imperial titles, whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. ... Read more

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  • The King and the Crown of Thorns

    Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France

    Translated by Sylwia Twardo ...
    In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers ... Read more

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  • Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century

    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer’s point of view. Setting ... Read more

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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Europe

    Translated by Ewa Macura ...
    European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate ... Read more

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  • The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

    The Case of 'G'

    Series series Genders and Sexualities in History
    This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health hospital in 1928. No systematic study exists on the possibility that Fascism used internment in an asylum as a tool of repression for LGBT people, as an alternative to confinement ... Read more

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  • Rosicrucian Digest Volume 96 Number 2 2018

    In anticipation of the Rome 2019 AMORC World Convention, this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest explores Mystical Italy. ... Read more

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  • Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict

    Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management?

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Political Transition
    Should we punish wrongdoers? Should we take care of the ones who suffered from wrongdoings? Although we may believe answers to these questions are obvious, they become less so when similar questions are asked under exceptional circumstances, such as armed conflicts. These answers may decide about the continuation of hostilities or their end. The stakes are high, while we can hardly ignore the need ... Read more

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  • Piave In Book

    Il fiume Piave è sempre stato un’importantissima fonte di vita: l’uomo ha bevuto la sua acqua, l’ha utilizzata per irrigare i campi, ha sfruttato le sue correnti per far girare le macine dei mulini e per produrre energia elettrica. Per secoli ha trasportato uomini e merci pregiate su zattere fino a Venezia e accompagnato le greggi transumanti lungo le sue grave. Il Piave, inoltre, ha modellato il ... Read more

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  • Nicola Eugenio D'Antino

    Gli alunni della classe Seconda B della Scuola Secondaria hanno iniziato a lavorare sui fumetti da quando frequentavano la classe Quinta della Scuola Primaria. Infatti nell’anno scolastico 2014/2015 sono stati coinvolti in un’attività di ricerca-azione di Storia con l’Insegnante Filomena Crivelli (per la Scuola Primaria) e con la prof.ssa Katja Battaglia (per la Scuola Secondaria). Nella classe ... Read more

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  • Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989

    Series Book 36 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses not only ... Read more

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  • 1989 and the West

    Western Europe since the End of the Cold War

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the ‘end of history’ characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book challenges this assumption. It studies the most recent era of contemporary European history in order to analyse the impact, consequences and legacy of the end of the Cold War for ... Read more

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  • Dimore e Viaggi

    Series series Storia di Italia (I Costumi degli Italiani nella Storia)
    Uno splendido eBook che ci parla delle dimore italiane durante i secoli e dei viaggi che si compivano nel medioevo, nel rinascimento e nell’ottocento. Il tutto splendidamente illustrato. ... Read more

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  • Through the Back Door

    The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989

    Series Book 5 - Studies in Contemporary History
    This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the ... Read more

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  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • Venire contra factum proprium

    Herkunft und Grundlagen eines sprichwoertlichen Rechtsprinzips

    Series Book 6 - Wiener Studien zu Geschichte, Recht und Gesellschaft. Viennese Studies in History, Law and Society
    Dieses Buch untersucht die Herkunft des Verbots von «venire contra factum proprium». Ausgehend von den mittelalterlichen «Brocardica» wird die Quellenbasis analysiert, auf welche der berühmte Satz vom verbotenen Selbstwiderspruch gestützt wurde. Die herangezogenen Quellen entstammen zum Großteil dem «Corpus Iuris Civilis»und enthalten in erster Linie «Fallrecht». Der Beitrag der Juristen des ... Read more

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  • Giacomo Leopardi e Gubbio

    Series Book 1 - Quaderni di italianistica.online
    Primo numero della serie monografica "Quaderni di italianistica.online" (www.italianistica.online) ideata e curata da Luigi M. Reale. | Il ritrovamento nell'Archivio Diocesano di Gubbio della partecipazione di nascita di Giacomo Leopardi inviata il 5 luglio 1798 dal padre Monaldo a Gubbio ci fa risalire, tramite la nonna paterna di Giacomo, Virginia Mosca, ad una altrimenti dimenticata ascendenza ... Read more

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  • Textualization of Experience

    Studies on Ancient Greek Literature

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the “textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories ... Read more

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  • Soft Soil, Black Grapes

    The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California

    Series Book 21 - Nation of Nations
    Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book DesignFrom Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America’s most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the ... Read more

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  • Eventi Meteorologici nel Veronese

    by Paolo Donà ...
    Il testo è una raccolta cronologica degli eventi meteorologici rilevanti avvenuti nel Veronese da quando questi si sono potuti tramandare o trascrivere.La ricerca parte dall'epoca romana passando per il medioevo fino ad arrivare ai giorni nostri.Non mancano aneddoti e cenni relativi ad eventi meteo avvenuti nelle zone circostanti. ... Read more

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  • The Distance to China

    Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898–1985)

    Series Book 42 - Italian Modernities
    «As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the late ... Read more

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  • Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945

    Bombing among Friends

    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender.Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and ... Read more

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  • The System of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe

    Series Book 36 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt out heretics, mostly Cathars and Waldensians, and directed operations against them all across Latin Christendom. The bull of Pope Lucius III Ad ... Read more

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