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Motorsport and Fascism
This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural roots of Fascism, the Futurism of F. T. Marinetti, and the Decadence associated with Gabriele D’Annunzio. The book traces this cultural convergence through a topical study of motorsport in the 1920s and 1930s placing it in the context of the history of sport under Mussolini’s regime. Chapters discuss the centrality of speed and death in Fascist culture, the attempt to transform Rome into a motorsport capital, the architectural and ideological function of the Monza and Tripoli and autodromes, and two chapters on the importance of the Mille Miglia, a genuine Fascist artefact that became one of the most legendary motor races of all time.
The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943
The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War.
Italian Communism
An anthropological exploration into the mind and social fabric of the Italian Communist Party. Based on research in the Communist-governed city of Perugia, Shore traces major factors which underlie the success of the PCI.
The Italian Literature of the Axis War
This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II.
The Sixties
If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution – one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. Marwick recaptures the events and movements that shaped life as we know it: the rise of a youth subculture across the West; the sit-ins and march...
Quasi Come Forrest Gump
Come nella famosa pellicola di Zemeckis, l’autore ripercorre gli anni salienti della sua vita, che si intrecciano indissolubilmente con la storia della sua città – Perugia – e con quella d’Italia. Dagli anni della guerra, da lui vissuti solo marginalmente essendo ancora in fasce, a quelli del boom economico, delle contestazioni e dei cosiddetti “anni di piombo”, la storia si dipana fino ai giorni nostri, raccontata attraverso ricordi personali e stralci di quotidiani locali e nazionali. Uno straordinario contributo storico e archivistico che, tra il serio e il faceto, disegna un percorso che guarda con speranza e intelligenza alle generazioni future.
Gli Ebrei di Isola Maggiore
In seguito alle nuove leggi razziali emesse dalla Repubblica di Salò il 30 novembre 1943 un gruppo di ebrei della Provincia di Perugia fu detenuto al Castello Guglielmi all’Isola Maggiore sul Lago Trasimeno, Umbria.Le fonti resistenziali attribuiscono la loro liberazione ad opera delle forze partigiane, asserendo che questo sia un caso praticamente unico in Italia. Inoltre si prendono il merito di aver impedito all’ultimo momento il loro trasferimento ai campi di sterminio.Però i fatti venuti alla luce dopo sessantacinque anni rivelano che il loro rilascio non andò esattamente così. La raccolta delle testimonianze orali e scritte e il ritrovamento dei documenti nell’Archivio diocesano di Perugia e negli Archivi di stato di Perugia e Roma da parte di tre investigatori, fra i quali l’autrice, ha stabilito definitivamente lo svolgersi degli avvenimenti.
