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The World of Sicilian Wine
The World of Sicilian Wine provides wine lovers with a comprehensive understanding of Sicilian wine, from its ancient roots to its modern evolution. Offering a guide and map to exploring Sicily, Bill Nesto, an expert in Italian wine, and Frances Di Savino, a student of Italian culture, deliver a substantive appreciation of a vibrant wine region that is one of Europe’s most historic areas and a place where many cultures intersect. From the earliest Greek and Phoenician settlers who colonized the island in the eighth century B.C., the culture of wine has flourished in Sicily. A parade of foreign rulers was similarly drawn to Sicily’s fertile land, sun-filled climate, and strategic position in the Mediterranean. The modern Sicilian quality wine industry was reborn in the 1980s and 1990s with the arrival of wines made with established international varieties and state-of-the-art enology. Sicily is only now rediscovering the quality of its indigenous grape varieties, such as Nero d’Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Frappato, Grillo, and distinctive terroirs such as the slopes of Mount Etna.
Agrarian Elites
Between 1815 and 1861, American slaveholders and southern Italian landowners presided over the economic and social life of two predominantly agricultural regions, the U.S. South and Italy's Mezzogiorno. Enrico Dal Lago ingeniously compares these agrarian elites, demonstrating how the study of each enhances our understanding of the other as well as of their shared nineteenth-century world. Agrarian Elites charts the parallel developments of plantations and latifondi in relation to changes in the world economy. At the same time, it examines the spread of "paternalistic" models of family relations and of slave and free-labor management that accompanied the rise of large groups of American slave...
Beyond the Traveller's Gaze
This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These texts cover a series of crucial political events as well as social and cultural changes which affected the history of Sicily during the period in question, all seen through the direct and indirect experiences of the authors. The book offers a historical perspective on the late-Victorian and Edwardian representations of post-Unification Italy. At the same time the author challenges current critical literature on travel writing which tends to analyse travel texts without mak...
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions
Acknowledgments -- Map of Southern Europe -- Introduction: Southern Europe and the making of a global revolutionary South -- Conspiracy and military careers in the Napoleonic Wars -- Pronunciamentos and the military origins of the revolutions -- Civil wars: armies, guerrilla warfare and mobilization in the rural world -- National wars of liberation and the end of the revolutionary experiences -- Crossing the Mediterranean: volunteers, mercenaries, refugees -- Re-conceiving territories: the revolutions as territorial crises -- Electing parliamentary assemblies -- Petitioning in the name of the constitution -- Shaping public opinion -- Taking control of public space -- A counterrevolutionary public sphere? The popular culture of absolutism -- Christianity against despotism -- A revolution within the Church -- Epilogue: Unfinished business. The Age of Revolutions after the 1820s -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.
Building a Civil Society
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 division, and economic decline? Most unification advocates doubted that their fellow citizens could form a modern, progressive civil society on their own, or that a vibrant association life would develop from the ground up. Building a Civil Society is the first book-length English-language study of associational life in nineteenth-century Italy. Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents including associational records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters Steven C. Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during Europe's age of association. His study also raises important questions about the role that associations play in emerging democracies.
Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places
In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that the more associations existing in a particular society, the deeper democracy becomes entrenched. In order to test this hypothesis, this volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activity in the urban pla...
Hochkultur als Herrschaftselement
Der Band bietet erstmals in vergleichender Perspektive Studien zur politischen Kulturgeschichte und symbolischen Praktiken der deutschen und italienischen Adelslandschaft. Thematisiert werden kulturelle Verhaltensmuster und adliger Lebensstil, seit Jahrhunderten tradierte ethische Verhaltensnormen und Denkweisen. Adligen Traditionen bewahrten große Leistungsbereitschaft gemäß spezifischer Normen wie Caritas, Religiosität, kriegerischem Mut, wobei sich beide Adelsgruppen durch ein prestigeträchtiges Mäzenatentum auszeichneten. Deutlich wird für beide Länder, dass einerseits regionale Traditionen noch lange nationale Orientierungen überlagerten, dass andererseits aber gerade der Hochadel in einem europäischen Raum agierte. Adlige werden hier zudem als liberale Politiker und als erfolgreiche Unternehmer fokussiert. Vor allem werden sie in diesem Band als Meister der Sichtbarkeit medien- und kulturgeschichtlich präsentiert. Als weiterführender Diskussionspunkt wird gefragt, ob man das 19. Jahrhundert schlicht als bürgerlich etikettieren kann.
Il corporativismo fascista
Il fascismo volle proporsi come ‘terza via' alternativa al capitalismo e al socialismo, come esperimento rivoluzionario fondatore di uno ‘Stato nuovo' e di un diverso sistema sociale. Della terza via fascista il corporativismo fu uno degli aspetti principali e maggiormente appariscenti. Oggetto di accesi dibattiti e della costante attenzione delle gerarchie del fascismo, l'attuazione delle corporazioni fu però tardiva e per nulla commisurata alle aspettative. Nonostante la notevole sproporzione tra le parole e i fatti, l'azione del sistema corporativo non fu però senza esito, perché accompagnò e favorì trasformazioni profonde nell'organizzazione delle classi e dei ceti e nel rapporto tra la società e lo Stato.
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