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“jane schneider”

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  • Wounded Cities

    Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World

    Edited by Jane Schneider, Ida Susser ...
    Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Italy's 'Southern Question'

    Orientalism in One Country

    Edited by Jane Schneider ...
    The ‘Southern Question' has been a major topic in Italian political, economic and cultural life for a century and more. During the Cold War, it was the justification for heavy government intervention. In contemporary Italy, a major part of the appeal of the Lombard League has been its promise to dissociate the South from the North, even to the point of secession. The South also remains a resonant ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reversible Destiny

    Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

    by Peter T. Schneider, Jane Schneider ...
    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 ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Materan Contradictions

    Architecture, Preservation and Politics

    by Anne Parmly Toxey ...
    Shaped by encrusted layers of development spanning millennia, the southern Italian city of Matera is the ultimate palimpsest. Known as the Sassi, the majority of the ancient city is composed of thousands of structures carved into a limestone cliff and clinging to its walls. The resultant menagerie of forms possesses a surprising visual uniformity and an ineffable allure. Conversely, in the 1950s ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mussolini's Intellectuals

    Fascist Social and Political Thought

    by A. James Gregor ...
    Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Building a Civil Society

    Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

    by Steven C. Soper ...
    The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens – especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Italians

    by John Hooper ...
    **Washington Post bestsellerLos Angeles Times bestsellerA vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent**How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover?John Hooper’s entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Left and Right

    The Significance of a Political Distinction

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Antonio A. Santucci, Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm, Joseph Buttigieg, Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Graziella DiMauro ...
    “What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from the prefaceAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world’s greatest cultural critics. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and works ... Read more

    $7.99 USD