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  • The Blackshirts’ Dictatorship

    Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini’s Regime

    by Matteo Millan ...
    Translated by Sergio Knipe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years. That power was obtained was largely due to the widespread violence perpetrated by blackshirts throughout Italy (squadristi). Violence however did not end. Old and new blackshirts played a major role in making Italy a fascist country. Contrary to the claims of many scholars that have ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Platonism

    A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity

    by Mauro Bonazzi, David Sedley ...
    Translated by Sergio Knipe ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    The task of philosophy, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once wrote, is to 'overturn Platonism'. This might be true, if only we could define what Platonism is. In this clear and accessible book Mauro Bonazzi provides the first comprehensive introduction to ancient Platonism. He begins his story with Plato's Academy before moving on to the sceptical turn which occurred during the Hellenistic ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Seigneurial Transformation

    Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130

    by Alessio Fiore ...
    Translated by Sergio Knipe ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
    In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century. The study analyses the major socio-political change of this period, the crisis of royal and public structures, and the development of seigneurial powers, using as a starting point the structures ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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    The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter**, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars.**"I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a newspaper: they closed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to abandon it. I had—as I still do—dreams, dignity, ideals: to defend them I was sent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • History of the Mafia

    by Salvatore Lupo ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones-iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with ... Read more

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  • The Force of Destiny

    A History of Italy Since 1796

    by Christopher Duggan ...
    The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. The Force of Destiny, Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to this idea. While sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he strongly distinguishes this ... Read more

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  • A History of Contemporary Italy

    1943-80

    by Paul Ginsborg ...
    In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mussolini in Myth and Memory

    The First Totalitarian Dictator

    by Paul Corner ...
    Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Garibaldi

    by Lucy Riall ...
    Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    by Christopher Duggan ...
    Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens ... Read more

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  • Anatomy of the Red Brigades

    The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

    by Alessandro Orsini ...
    Translated by Sarah J. Nodes ...
    The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late ... Read more

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  • A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

    The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali

    by Alberto Toscano ...
    The true story of the Tour de France winner who cycled all over Mussolini's Italy in a secret quest to rescue hundreds of Jewish lives.Cyclist Gino Bartali won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren't his only achievements.Deeply religious, Bartali quietly agreed during the dark years of fascist rule to work with the Resistance and pass messages ... Read more

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