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Shape Shifters
Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static “either/or” categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume expands our understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. The essays in Shape Shifters explore different historical eras and reach across the globe, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape shifters, the Native pe...
God's Bankers
Revealing a history of mysterious deaths, shady characters, and moral and political tensions, exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church to trace how the Vatican evolved from an institution of faith into an extremely wealthy corporate power. --Publisher's description.
Virginio Gayda, the Yugoslav Question and the Italian Irredenta
This is a study of the early writings of Virginio Gayda (1885-1944), a talented but amoral Italian journalist whose career spanned two world wars. A keen observer, prolific writer and propagandist during his stint as the newspaper La Stampa’s special correspondent in Habsburg Vienna, Gayda lent his considerable skills to promote an aggressive foreign policy. No one did more than he to poison relations between the Italian and Yugoslav peoples. His is the story of a respected journalist who chose an ultranationalist path to fascism and international fame. Not uninfluenced by rank careerism and material reward he forsook his roots to embrace the antisemitic “race” laws of 1938 and Italy’s disastrous partnership with Nazi Germany.
The History of European Conservative Thought
Modern conservatism was born in the crisis of the French Revolution that sought to overturn Christianity, monarchy, tradition, and a trust in experience rather than reason. In the name of reason and progress, the French Revolution led to the guillotine, the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a decade of continental war. Today Western Civilization is again in crisis, with an ever-widening progressive campaign against religion, tradition, and ordered liberty; Francesco Giubilei's cogent reassessment of some of conservatism's greatest thinkers could not be timelier. Within these pages, English-speaking readers will come across some familiar names: Burke, Disraeli, Chesterton, and Scruton. ...
Italy and Libya
This volume proposes a historical analysis of Italian-Libyan relations in contemporary times. After examining the colonialism of liberal Italy, which in 1911 culminated in the military campaign for the conquest of the Libyan regions, it evaluates the impact of fascism in Libya and the attempt to launch a broader pro-Arab policy. The third section analyzes the construction of the so-called 'special relationship' between Rome and Tripoli since the 50s when an economic interdependence between the Libyan oil producer and the Italian industrial power was pursued despite political differences. Finally, the volume also focuses on the dramatic implosion of Libya and the loss of its political unity f...
The Concept of Resistance in Italy
The Concept of Resistance in Italy brings together experts from different fields to reflect in a new, comprehensive critical approach, on an event that has shaped the young Italian nation from the onset of Fascism in the early 20s. Although grounded in the Italian context, its theoretical frameworks, provided by the variety of disciplines involved in the volume, will prove beneficial for any critical discourse on the concept of resistance nowadays. Moving from a reflection on the legacy of the Italian Resistance to Fascism and the Resistance Movement born in the latest years of WWII, when Italy witnessed the presence on its territory of foreign troops from opposite corners, and was involved ...
Diario di un tempo ritrovato
Minerva pubblica un eBook i cui proventi saranno devoluti a sostegno della campagna "Più Forti Insieme" della Fondazione Policlinico Sant'Orsola, a favore degli ospedali Sant'Orsola-Malpighi, Maggiore e Bellaria di Bologna e del personale sanitario impegnato nell'emergenza Coronavirus. La primavera del 2020 ha segnato un destino particolare per tutte le generazioni nate dal secondo Dopoguerra in avanti, rappresentando l'evento epocale che molti, immaginavano di avere avuto la buona sorte di non dover fronteggiare. In questi mesi di stasi forzata, è emersa l'opportunità di riflettere su questi aspetti, confrontandoci con noi stessi e con chi abbiamo vicino a noi, fisicamente o spiritualmen...
Sergio Marchionne
Chi era veramente Sergio Marchionne? Un manager visionario al pari dei più grandi, quali Steve Jobs, Bill Gates e Jeff Bezos, capace di affrontare il presente sognando il futuro oppure il duro che non esitava a scontrarsi con i sindacalisti della Fiom e a sbattere la porta e uscire da Confindustria. Marchionne il giocatore che riuscì a salvare la Fiat quando, sono parole sue, era "tecnicamente fallita", ma anche a giocare d'azzardo (o d'astuzia) con General Motors, passando in una notte di San Valentino da predatore a preda, fino alla conquista, per nessuno immaginabile, di Chrysler. Come per Valletta, il papà della 500, anche Marchionne ha segnato la storia della Fiat e del mondo automobilistico. Ma mentre il primo aveva spinto sulla motorizzazione di massa, facendo di Torino la capitale dell'auto, il manager italo-canadese ha scommesso sulla globalizzazione, convincendo a parlare inglese tutta l'azienda, nel frattempo divenuta FCA. Un manager duro, esigente, ma anche un uomo capace di slanci emotivi improvvisi, come raccontano i tanti episodi riportati in questo libro.
