Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the ...fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide acceptance in Italy.This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists concerned with the development of fascism and scholars of race and racism.
Lelia's kiss Giannetti, Laura
Lelia's kiss,
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Lelia's Kiss analyzes gender roles, sexuality, and marriage in the Italian Renaissance through the lens of a large number of comedies from the period, ranging well beyond the traditional canon.
De bundel reisschetsen Van Napels naar Amsterdam uit 1877 vormt een verbinding tussen het genre van het klassieke reisjournaal, zoals dat onder meer door de grand-touristen werd beoefend, en de ...moderne twintigste-eeuwse reisliteratuur. Busken Huet gebruikt zijn indrukken op weg terug naar het vaderland (via Rome, Florence, Milaan, Genève, Dijon en Parijs) niet om de lezer pittoreske taferelen voor te schotelen, maar om aan de hand van zijn ervaringen en waarnemingen tijdloze cultuurkritiek te beoefenen. Steden, gebouwen, schilderijen, maar ook treinen, diligences en winkels zijn voor hem de decors waarin hij zijn (kunst)historische, (cultuur)kritische en bovenal zijn stilistische vermogens laat optreden. Van Napels naar Amsterdam heeft in 130 jaar verrassend weinig van zijn frisheid en diepgang verloren.
Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the ...myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities.
Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian literature, until now women’s contributions to this literature have been overlooked. Pickering-Iazzi’s aim is to encourage new critical reflection on a broader selection of literature through new theoretical lenses in order to enrich our understanding of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identity in literature, narrative traits of the new Italian epic, and the cultural and social functions of storytelling in life and literature.
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Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in firm productivity—with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the West more productive than the East in Germany—but ...have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that allows for local bargaining. We find that Italy exhibits limited geographical wage differences in nominal terms and almost no relationship between local productivity and local nominal wages, while Germany has larger geographic wage differences and a tighter link between local wages and local productivity. As a consequence, in Italy, low-productivity provinces have higher non-employment rates than high-productivity provinces, because employers cannot lower wages, while in Germany the relationship between non-employment and productivity is significantly weaker. We conclude that the Italian system has significant costs in terms of forgone aggregate earnings and employment because it generates a spatial equilibrium where workers queue for jobs in the South and remain unemployed while waiting. If Italy adopted the German system, aggregate employment and earnings would increase by 11.04% and 7.45%, respectively. Our findings are relevant for other European countries.
‘Anticlassicisms’ react to the various forms of ‘classicisms.’ This volume discusses the history and possible implications of the label in Renaissance studies and analyzes such ‘anticlassicisms.’ It ...distinguishes the various forms of opposition to ‘classicisms’ as to their scope (on a scale between radical poetological dissension to merely sectorial opposition in a given literary genre) and to their alternative models, be they authors or texts.
‚Antiklassizismen‘ reagieren auf unterschiedliche Formen von ‚Klassizismen.‘ Der Band untersucht die Geschichte und die möglichen Implikationen dieses Terminus für die Renaissanceforschung und analysiert zugleich solche ‚Antiklassizismen.‘ Er unterscheidet ihre unterschiedlich gearteten Gegenstellungen zu ‚Klassizismen‘ hinsichtlich ihrer Reichweite (auf einer Skala zwischen radikaler poetologischer Opposition und lediglich sektorialer Abweichung innerhalb einer Gattung) und hinsichtlich der je angesetzten Alternativmodelle, seien diese Autoren oder Texte.
Making democracy work Putnam, Robert D
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Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his ...collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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