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Italian Rebels
Belliotti analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, while distinctively interpreting the lives and ideologies of Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano.
Socialism Since 1889
This book is an analytical study of the history of modern socialism from 1889, when the Second International was founded, up to the present. The biographical portraits of the individuals chosen in this study provide insight into important issues in socialist history. These contrasting studies of twenty prominent socialistsómajor thinkers and important activists or agitatorsóilluminate particular problems in the historical evolution of socialism. The book's final chapter offers a substantial analysis of developments in the post-war period and an exploration of the crises facing contemporary world socialism in all its guises.
Reconstructing Italy
Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out in contrast to their contemporaries both in terms of design and outcome. Unlike modernist high-rise housing projects of the period, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and incorporate local construction materials and methods resulting in a rich aesthetic diversity. And unlik...
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture
Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals, post offices and stadia to housing, summer camps, Fascist Party Headquarters, ceremonial spaces, roads, railways and bridges, the physical traces of the regime have a presence in nearly every Italian town. The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism, how sites have been tra...
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Il cavaliere dei Rossomori
Fiori ha l'istinto della fiaba quando racconta storie biografiche ma al contempo – ed è qui il suo valore raro – pratica un rigore da filologo: non vuole che nulla di ciò che scrive sia scarsamente documentato e al tempo stesso non permette che nulla di ciò che scrive possa annoiare. Le sue pagine andrebbero lette a scuola per accendere l'interesse dei ragazzi sulle storie dell'antifascismo. Roberto Saviano Chi era il cavaliere dei Rossomori e cosa erano i Rossomori? Per polemica, un industriale minerario continentale in Sardegna, finanziatore dei primi fascisti isolani, marchiò il neonato Partito sardo d'Azione con il nome di 'partito dei rosso-mori' fondendo le propensioni socialis...
