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Private Bankers in the Italian 19th Century
The book analyses the role of private bankers who were pivotal in modernizing the economic and financial system of Italy in the XIX century. To achieve this they needed to interact with the international haute banque to organize and place the public loans and the large investments associated with the joint-stock companies. The theme of reputation, which is currently at the centre of the historiographical debate, is fundamental for the study of the private banker figures, whose professional success is linked to the limitless trust accorded to them by their circle of personal contacts. Historiography has studied the role of Italian bankers in the trade, credit and international finance during ...
Conservatives Versus Wildcats
For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers—wildcats—attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change. Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit—and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance.
Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World
The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the ancients' knowledge of species diversity are the main cores of the research. The aim is to interrogate historical sources and diverse evidence and to analyse political and socioeconomic structures, according to a reading focused on possible antecedents, cultural prodromes, alignments of thought or divergencies, with respect to major modern environmental problems and current ecological conceptuali...
State and Financial Systems in Europe and the USA
During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many advanced and developing countries. The interwar years represented the defining moment for the escalation of governments' intervention, turning the State into the core of financial systems in its capacity of regulator, supervisor or owner. The essays in this collection shed light on different aspects of the experience of financial regulation, ownership and deregulation in Europe and the USA from a secular historical perspective. The volume's chapters explore how the political economy of finance changed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how such changes were related to s...
Il mestiere di storico (2022) vol. 1- 2
Ricordi Per Rosanna Scatamacchia Riflessioni Francesco Tacchi, Il pontificato di Pio XII e la Germania fra 1945 e 1958 Nicola Camilleri, Le cittadinanze nelle colonie europee in età contemporanea Rassegne e letture Giovanni Gozzini, Storie del comunismo italiano Gianluca Fiocco, Biografie del comunismo italiano Girolamo Imbruglia, Il «disordinato sperimentalismo» della storiografia nazionale Francesca Sofia, Il mito di Napoleone tra memoria e oggetti Roberto Balzani, Usi pubblici e politicizzazione del «sommo poeta» Paolo Fonzi, Le guerre del fascismo Stefano Petrungaro, Connessioni. Balcani, imperi, Italia Luigi Piccioni, Umani/animali Elisabetta Caroppo, Brigantaggio e Unità d’Ital...
The Renaissance Perfected
Mussolini&’s bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation&’s medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime&’s programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today&’s tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed Palio of Siena) wer...
Pragmatismus und Ideologie
Die Analyse der Organisationsformen des deutschen Liberalismus, wie sie sich im politischen Alltag entwickelt haben, eröffnet eine fruchtbare historiographische Perspektive. Aus diesem Blickwinkel können zum einen die Kenntnisse über eine (im weitesten Sinne) Sozialgeschichte des deutschen Parteiwesens im 19. Jahrhundert erweitert werden. Zum anderen gelingt es, die These einer vermeintlichen Unfähigkeit des Liberalismus zur Organisation und sozialen Milieubildung erneut zu relativieren.Die vorliegende Arbeit ist dieser Perspektive verpflichtet. Monica Cioli analysiert die Organisationsformen der Nationalliberalen Partei, der Deutschen Fortschrittspartei und der Liberalen Vereinigung in ...
I beni dei migranti
Il libro intende far luce sugli effetti della mobilità, della migrazione e dell’esilio sulle proprietà dei soggetti coinvolti, tanto nel Paese di origine quanto in quello di arrivo. Si propone inoltre di delineare un quadro delle forme di gestione della ricchezza a distanza, comprendendo sia le proprietà rurali che quelle urbane, i piccoli patrimoni delle famiglie contadine e le grandi fortune bancarie e industriali. Il lungo periodo consente di studiare alcune pratiche di gestione patrimoniale – procure matrimoniali, nomina di uomini di fiducia, e via dicendo – senza limitare la prospettiva al periodo della grande emigrazione di fine secolo, tenendo così conto degli effetti patrimoniali della mobilità nell’Italia preunitaria. Attraverso punti di vista multipli, il volume vuole dare nuovo respiro allo studio degli strumenti di conservazione e amministrazione del patrimonio, interrogandosi su cosa implichi la mobilità in termini di adattamento e innovazione amministrativa e legale, nonché di pratiche e accordi sub-legali.
