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Italy on the Pacific: San Francisco's Italian Americans (Italian and Italian American Studies)
by Sebastian FicheraThis book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defines the concept of community in a way never seen before.
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
by Mark GilbertA brilliant, meticulously researched account of the birth of Italian democracy after Mussolini. The rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy was admitted to the United Nations, the nation had contested three acrimonious but free general elections, had a flourishing press, and was a leader in the rebuilding of Europe. This is the dramatic story told by Italy Reborn. It charts the descent of Italy into Fascism, the scale of the wartime disaster, the Italian resistance to Nazi occupation, the horrors of civil war, and the establishment of the Republic in 1946. The Cold War divided, in 1947, the coalition of parties that had led the resistance to Fascism and Nazism. The book’s final chapters deal with the consolidation of Italian democracy and with the statesmanship of Alcide De Gasperi, the premier from December 1945 to August 1953. The book persuasively argues that De Gasperi deserves more credit than he has typically been accorded for Italy’s postwar democratization and shows how Italian democracy was constructed on a sound foundation—which is why it has been able to survive its many postwar crises. Largely based on contemporary Italian sources, Italy Reborn is both an original account of this crucial period in Italian history and a remarkable example of how democracies are made.
Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? (The Present and The Past)
by Roger AbaslomSince unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world's leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes. Dominated by political Catholicism, she has also been home to Fascism, the mafia, and the largest Communist movement outside the Eastern Bloc. Her politics are notoriously fissiparous - yet policy itself never changes. Until now. This timely, absorbing and richly illustrated account of the historical development of the Italian nation-state traces the main paradoxes of what `Italy' has been, and questions what she may become.
Italy through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946–79) (Italian and Italian American Studies)
by Gianluca FantoniThis book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of cinema in the communication strategy of the Italian Communist party (the PCI). It examines the entire period during which the party had a systematic and organized approach to cinematographic production, starting with the early experiments in 1946 and concluding with the closure of PCI film company Unitelefilm at the end of the 1970s. Its analysis sheds light on a range of issues, such as the relationship between the party and Italian intellectuals, the Stalinist imprint of the Italian Communist Party and the historical significance of the Salerno turn, the PCI’s relationship with the student movements in 1968 and 1977, and the PCI’s response to the rise in political violence in the 1970s. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that cinema was essential to the PCI’s propaganda effort.
Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Controversy over the Adriatic Region, 1915-1920: Strategic Expectations and Geopolitical Realities in the Aftermath of the Great War (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)
by Bianchini, Edited by StefanoThis book explores the path that led to the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) between Italy and the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in the aftermath of the First World War, when the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire were allotted to new and existing states, with regard as far as possible to the nationalities of the people living in the various territories in addition to the future of Montenegro and Albania.Based on vast archival documentation and published sources, the contributors to this book discuss the nature of the disputes which arose in the Adriatic area, often as the result of the inhabitants of the different territories being of several nationalities, and examine how the disputes were concluded. The book charts the disappointments of both Italians and Yugoslavs, the Italians disappointed that the terms of the Treaty of London of 1915, which promised Dalmatia to Italy in return for Italy entering the war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were not fulfilled. The Yugoslavs were disappointed loosing territories containing large Yugoslav populations. The volume considers public opinion, the words, positions and actions of leading politicians, and the continuing consequences of the settlement, many of them adverse consequences for particular cities and localities.Presenting a comprehensive approach to the Adriatic controversy, this book will be of interest to those studying European history of international relations, diplomatic negotiations and nationalism, modern history, Central Asian, Eastern European and Russian Studies.
Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
by Wendy Wassyng Roworth Catherine Sama Paula FindlenIn the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
by Shira KleinHow did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II - during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture - led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. Italy's Jews experienced a century of dramatic changes, from emancipation in 1848, to the 1938 Racial Laws, wartime refuge in America and Palestine, and the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors. This cultural and social history draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs.
Itch
by Michelle D. KwasneyAfter the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as "Itch", moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon discovers is true. "Speaking up takes courage", Gramps had always told Itch, and she's about to discover just how much. Michelle D. Kwasney weaves a compelling story about child abuse, family, and friendship against the backdrop of the late 1960s.
Itch: A Novel
by Michelle D. KwasneyAfter the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as "Itch," moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon discovers is true. "Speaking up takes courage," Gramps had always told Itch, and she's about to discover just how much. Michelle D. Kwasney weaves a compelling story about child abuse, family, and friendship against the backdrop of the late 1960s.Itch is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
by Noelle GallagherA lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In this book, literary critic Noelle Gallagher explores the cultural significance of the “clap” (gonorrhea), the “pox” (syphilis), and the “itch” (genital scabies) for the development of eighteenth-century British literature and art. As a condition both represented through metaphors and used as a metaphor, venereal disease provided a vehicle for the discussion of cultural anxieties about gender, race, commerce, and immigration. Gallagher highlights four key concepts associated with venereal disease, demonstrating how infection’s symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and facial deformities. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality.
Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture
by Robin SchuldenfreiThis edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration. To contextualize iteration within artistic and architectural production, this collection of essays presents a range of close studies in art, architectural and design history, using archival and historiographical research, media theory, photography, material studies, and critical theory. It examines objects as unique yet mutable works by examining their antecedents, successive exemplars, and their afterlives—and thus their role as organizers or repositories of meaning. Key are the roles of writing, the use of media, and relationships between object, image, and reproduction. This volume asks how a closer look at iteration reveals new perspectives into the production of objects and the production of thought alike. Written by an international team of contributors, offering a range of perspectives, it looks broadly at meaning and insight offered by the iteration—for processes of design, for historical research, and for the reception of creative works.
Ithaca: A Novel of Homer's Odyssey
by Patrick DillonIn the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself. Telemachus’s father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born … and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men pursuing his beautiful mother, Penelope, and devouring the family’s wealth. He determines to leave Ithaca, his island home, and find the truth. What really happened to his father? Was Odysseus killed on his journey home from the war? Or might he, one day, return to take his revenge? Telemachus's journey takes him across the landscape of bronze-age Greece in the aftermath of the great Trojan war. Veterans hide out in the hills. Chieftains, scarred by war, hoard their treasure in luxurious palaces. Ithaca re-tells Homer’s famous poem, The Odyssey, from the point of view of Odysseus’ resourceful and troubled son, describing Odysseus’s extraordinary voyage from Troy to the gates of hell, and Telemachus’s own journey from boyhood to the desperate struggle that wins back his home … and his father.
Ithaca: A Brief History
by Carol KammenCalmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with a rocky start. Transient teamsters and salt barge workers gave the town a rowdy reputation in its pioneer days, and the fledgling village seemed doomed as the "most isolated place on the Eastern Seaboard." Over the course of the nineteenth century, Ithaca's character swung like a pendulumfrom debauchery to temperance, from boisterous vagrancy to religious fervor and reform. Though the town was hit hard by the Depression of 1837 and periodically ravaged by fire and flood, Ithaca survived to become a lively and bustling community and an important center of education, technologicalinnovation and cultural vibrancy. In this comprehensive history, Carol Kammen shows exactly why Ithaca is known as the "Crown of Cayuga."
Ithaca (Songs of Penelope #1)
by Claire NorthFrom the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It&’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . ."North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth. Breathtaking." —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world.
Ithaca Forever: Penelope Speaks, A Novel
by Luigi MalerbaAfter twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the homecoming he had hoped for finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with his faithful and long-suffering wife Penelope. When Penelope recognizes him under the guise of a beggar, she becomes furious with him for not trusting her enough to include her in his plans for ridding the palace of the Suitors. As a result, she plays her own game of fictions to make him suffer for this lack of faith, inspiring jealousy, self-doubt, and misgivings in her husband, the legendary Homeric hero. In this captivating retelling of the Odyssey, Penelope rises as a major force with whom to be reckoned. Shifting between first-person reflections, Ithaca Forever reveals the deeply personal and powerful perspectives of both wife and husband as they struggle for respect and supremacy within a marriage that has been on hold for twenty years. Translated by PEN award-winner Douglas Grant Heise, Luigi Malerba’s novel gives us a remarkable version of this greatest work of western literature: Odysseus as a man full of doubts and Penelope as a woman of great depth and strength.
Ithaca Radio
by Peter King Steinhaus Keith Olbermann Rick Sommers SteinhausFrom Long Island to Fiji, college students flocked to the sleepy little town of Ithaca to learn the how-tos and how-not-tos of broadcasting. From that influx came some of the future leaders and celebrities of the broadcasting industry. Television stars were born here, and some of radio's future stars were nurtured to succeed in an industry that impacts the daily lives of Americans. Ithaca's rich broadcasting history includes two college radio stations and several locally owned and operated stations. From the Greaseman to Keith Olbermann, Ithaca was the launch pad for numerous successful careers in music, talk, news, business, and satellite radio. Through vintage photographs, Ithaca Radio shares a history of local radio and some of the great voices that have called Ithaca home.
Itihas Aur Nagrik Shastra class 6 - Maharashtra Board: इतिहास और नागरिक शास्त्र ६वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक "इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र" छठी कक्षा की पाठ्यपुस्तक है, जिसमें भारत के संविधान, इतिहास, नागरिकशास्त्र, प्राचीन भारत की संस्कृति, शासन व्यवस्था आदि विषयों पर जानकारी दी गई है। यह पुस्तक छठी कक्षा के विद्यार्थियों के लिए इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र विषयों को एक समग्र रूप में प्रस्तुत करती है। इसमें प्राचीन भारत के इतिहास का वर्णन है, जिसमें हड़प्पा संस्कृति, वैदिक संस्कृति, जनपद और महाजनपद, मौर्यकालीन भारत आदि शामिल हैं। इसके साथ ही, नागरिकशास्त्र के अंतर्गत संविधान, नागरिक अधिकार और कर्तव्य, स्थानीय शासन संस्थाएँ और समाज में विविधता पर प्रकाश डाला गया है। पुस्तक का उद्देश्य विद्यार्थियों को भारतीय इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र की मूलभूत जानकारी देना है ताकि वे अपनी सांस्कृतिक और सामाजिक पहचान को समझ सकें तथा एक जिम्मेदार नागरिक बन सकें।
Itihas Aur Nagrik Shastra class 7 - Maharashtra Board: इतिहास और नागरिक शास्त्र ७वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneइतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र (सातवीं कक्षा) यह पुस्तक इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र के माध्यम से विद्यार्थियों को भारत के मध्यकालीन इतिहास तथा संवैधानिक मूल्यों से परिचित कराती है। इतिहास के भाग में शिवाजी महाराज के पूर्वकाल से लेकर मराठा साम्राज्य के उत्थान तक की घटनाओं को विस्तार से प्रस्तुत किया गया है। इसमें धार्मिक सौहार्द, भक्ति आंदोलन, सिख धर्म, सूफी परंपरा तथा विभिन्न शासकों की नीतियों का वर्णन किया गया है। नागरिकशास्त्र में भारतीय संविधान की संरचना, मौलिक अधिकार, नीति निदेशक सिद्धांत और कर्तव्यों की चर्चा की गई है। यह पुस्तक विद्यार्थियों को अपने सामाजिक और राष्ट्रीय उत्तरदायित्वों को समझने और जागरूक नागरिक बनने के लिए प्रेरित करती है।
Itihas Aur Nagrik Shastra class 8 - Maharashtra Board: इतिहास और नागरिक शास्त्र ८वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक आठवीं कक्षा के विद्यार्थियों के लिए आधुनिक भारत के इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र की मूलभूत जानकारी प्रदान करती है। इतिहास भाग में ब्रिटिश शासन के प्रभाव, स्वतंत्रता संग्राम, सामाजिक सुधार आंदोलनों और आधुनिक भारत के निर्माण को विस्तार से समझाया गया है। इसमें 1857 का स्वतंत्रता संग्राम, राष्ट्रवादी आंदोलनों, महात्मा गांधी और अन्य स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों के योगदान, तथा भारत की स्वतंत्रता प्राप्ति की घटनाओं पर प्रकाश डाला गया है। नागरिकशास्त्र भाग में भारत की संसदीय शासन प्रणाली, संविधान, कानून, न्यायपालिका, केंद्र और राज्य सरकार की संरचना, लोकतंत्र, मौलिक अधिकार और कर्तव्य जैसे विषयों को शामिल किया गया है। यह पुस्तक संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) में उल्लिखित नागरिकों के मूल कर्तव्यों को भी समझाती है, जिसमें पर्यावरण संरक्षण, वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने और राष्ट्रीय एकता बनाए रखने की जिम्मेदारी शामिल है। चित्र, मानचित्र और गतिविधियों के माध्यम से यह पुस्तक छात्रों को इतिहास और नागरिकशास्त्र की व्यावहारिक समझ विकसित करने में मदद करती है, जिससे वे एक जागरूक और जिम्मेदार नागरिक बन सकें।
Itihas Aur Rajneeti Shastra class 9 - Maharashtra Board: इतिहास और राजनीति शास्त्र ९वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक इतिहास और राजनीति शास्त्र (कक्षा 9, हिंदी माध्यम) पर आधारित है। इसका उद्देश्य विद्यार्थियों को स्वतंत्रता के बाद के भारत की सामाजिक, राजनीतिक, आर्थिक और तकनीकी प्रगति को समझाना है। इसमें 1961 से 2000 तक की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाओं, संविधान, आर्थिक विकास, महिलाओं और कमजोर वर्गों के सशक्तीकरण, विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी, अंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंधों, और भारत के समक्ष आंतरिक चुनौतियों को शामिल किया गया है। इसमें पंचवर्षीय योजनाओं, बैंकों के राष्ट्रीयकरण, हरित क्रांति, परमाणु परीक्षण, कारगिल युद्ध, वैश्वीकरण और तकनीकी प्रगति का भी उल्लेख है। साथ ही, इसमें भारतीय लोकतंत्र, विदेश नीति, सुरक्षा व्यवस्था, और मानवाधिकारों पर विशेष जोर दिया गया है। पुस्तक विद्यार्थियों को इतिहास और राजनीति शास्त्र की मूलभूत समझ प्रदान करने और उन्हें भविष्य की प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओं के लिए तैयार करने में सहायक है।
Itihas Aur Rajneeti Vigyan class 10 - Maharashtra Board: इतिहास और राजनीति विज्ञान १०वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Pune"इतिहास और राजनीति विज्ञान" (कक्षा 10 - हिंदी माध्यम) इस पुस्तक का मुख्य उद्देश्य कक्षा 10 के छात्रों को भारतीय इतिहास और राजनीति विज्ञान के मूलभूत पहलुओं से अवगत कराना है। यह पुस्तक इतिहास लेखन की परंपरा, संविधान के मूल सिद्धांत, और लोकतंत्र के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर केंद्रित है। इतिहास भाग में पश्चिमी और भारतीय परंपरा, उपयुक्त इतिहास, कलाओं का इतिहास, और सामाजिक-राजनीतिक आंदोलनों की चर्चा की गई है। राजनीति विज्ञान में चुनाव प्रक्रिया, राजनीतिक दलों की भूमिकाएँ, और लोकतंत्र की चुनौतियाँ शामिल हैं। साथ ही, इसमें सांस्कृतिक और प्राकृतिक धरोहर के संरक्षण की महत्ता और उनकी भूमिका पर प्रकाश डाला गया है। छात्रों को पाठ्यपुस्तक में संकलित जानकारी को व्यावहारिक जीवन से जोड़ने हेतु प्रोत्साहित किया गया है।
Itihas (C. 750-1206) BA (Hons) Sem-III -Ranchi University, N.P.U
by A. K. MittalItihas (C. 750-1206) Core Course-C 5 and Core Course-C 6 text book According to the Latest Syllabus based on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for B.A (Hons.) Sem-II from Ranchi University, Nilambar Pitambar University in hindi.
The Itinerant
by William HerrickA rowdy book; Tom Jones with a lacing of Karl Marx, as its hero plunges through the 20th century--the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II--at a gallop.
Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America (1900-1950)
by Joanna CrowThis book explores how ideas about race travelled across national borders in early twentieth-century Latin America. It builds on a vast array of scholarly works which underscore the highly contingent and flexible nature of race and racism in the region. The framework of the nation-state dominates much of this scholarship, in part because of the important implications of ideas about race for state policies. This book argues that we need to investigate the cross-border elaboration of ideas that informed and fed into these policies. It is organized around three key policy areas – labour, cultural heritage, and education – and focuses on conversations between Chilean and Peruvian intellectuals about the ‘indigenous question’. Most historical scholarship on Chile and Peru draws attention to the wars fought in the nineteenth century and their long-term consequences, which reverberate to this day. Relations between the two countries are therefore interpreted almost exclusively as antagonistic and hostile. Itinerant Ideas challenges this dominant historical narrative.