Twentieth Century Italy
Title | Twentieth Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Dunnage |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317886917 |
Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines contemporary Italian society in the light of the political and moral crisis of the early 1990s.
Twentieth Century Italy
Title | Twentieth Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Dunnage |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317886909 |
Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines contemporary Italian society in the light of the political and moral crisis of the early 1990s.
Twentieth Century Italy:A Social History
Title | Twentieth Century Italy:A Social History PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Dunnage |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003-01-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780582292772 |
Searching for Japan
Title | Searching for Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Monserrati |
Publisher | Transnational Italian Cultures |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789621070 |
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of 'relational Orientalism, ' this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as 'Oriental' as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.
Italy in the Nineteenth Century
Title | Italy in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | John Anthony Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198731280 |
This series offers a history of Italy from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century and presents recent historical perspectives on Italian history. This volume covers the period from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th century.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
Title | Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Baxandall |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192821447 |
An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.
The Legacies of Two World Wars
Title | The Legacies of Two World Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Lothar Kettenacker |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857452231 |
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared by millions of people in many Western countries. Thinking about this controversy inspired the present volume, which takes a closer look at how society responded to the outbreaks and conclusions of the First and Second World Wars. In order to examine this relationship between the conduct of wars and public opinion, leading scholars trace the moods and attitudes of the people of four Western countries (Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) before, during and after the crucial moments of the two major conflicts of the twentieth century. Focusing less on politics and more on how people experienced the wars, this volume shows how the distinction between enthusiasm for war and concern about its consequences is rarely clear-cut.