Alessandro Romagnoli's Books

The Economic Development Process in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Alessandro Romagnoli,Luisa Mengoni

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Economic Development Process in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Alessandro Romagnoli,Luisa Mengoni

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the development of economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the past half century, this book charts the progress of these countries through an examination of an Islamic model of economic development, reform processes, and economic integration. Far from being a simple process, economic development in the Middle East and North Africa is dependent on the interaction of a set of changing systems including; international relations, the political regime, economy, and society. By analysing these interdependent factors, The Economic Development Process in MENA seeks to provide answers to the most pressing issues facing the economies in this area. Providing an interpretation of regional development in light of dialectics between state and society, this book will be of value to students and scholars with an interest in the Middle East, Economics, and International Relations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134447329

ISBN 13

9781134447329

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

By: Alessandro Romagnoli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

By: Alessandro Romagnoli

This book is about the economy rather than economics. It explores the structures, inner workings and problems of modern economies, showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the analysis there is the economic system, characterised by organisational components carrying out economic functions (production, consumption, distribution, and establishment and control of the economic activities as well as provision of public goods and services) and by a co-evolving dynamic with the state. The economic system is thus a ‘machine’ that modern states have organised through their laws and international agreements. The book incorporates a historical approach which reveals the varieties, structure and evolution of capitalism as the defining economic system of the modern age. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the economic sphere and the political sphere are the two powers ruling people’s lives: the economy is the result of their interactions. This book will be of great interest to readers in political economy, economics, sociology and political science.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317395069

ISBN 13

9781317395065

Biography of an Industrial Town

Terni, Italy, 1831–2014

By: Alessandro Portelli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Biography of an Industrial Town

Terni, Italy, 1831–2014

By: Alessandro Portelli

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

412

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319508989

ISBN 13

9783319508986

The Order Has Been Carried Out

History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome

By: Alessandro Portelli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Order Has Been Carried Out

History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome

By: Alessandro Portelli

On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1403981698

ISBN 13

9781403981691

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

By: Alessandro Vettori

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

By: Alessandro Vettori

In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante’s Commedia. The underlying thesis considers prayer a metaphorical pilgrimage toward a sacred location and connects it with the pilgrim’s ascent to the vision of the Trinity. Prayer is movement in Purgatorio and also in Paradiso, while eternal stasis is the penalty of blasphemous souls in Inferno. In the fictional rendition of the poem, the pilgrim’s itinerary becomes a specular reflection of Dante’s own exilic experience. Prayer’s human-divine interaction affords the poet the necessary escape from the overwhelming sense of failure in politics and love. Whether it is petitional, liturgical, thankful, praiseful, or contemplative, prayer expresses the supplicant’s wish to transform reality and attain a superior spiritual status. See inside the book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004405259

ISBN 13

9789004405257

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini

By: Alessandro Carrera

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini

By: Alessandro Carrera

*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini's Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory, Carrera introduces the reader to a new appreciation of Fellini's work. Life-affirming Franciscanism and repressive Counter-Reformation dogmatism live side by side in Fellini's films, although he clearly tends toward the former and resents the latter. The fascination with pre-Christian Rome shines through La Dolce Vita and finds its culmination in Fellini-Satyricon, the most audacious attempt to imagine what the West would be if Christianity had never replaced classical Rome. Minimal clues point toward a careful, extremely subtle use of classical texts and motifs. Fellini's interest in the classics culminates in Olympus, a treatment of Hesiod's Theogony for a never-realized TV miniseries on Greek mythology, here introduced for the first time to an English-speaking readership. Fellini's recurrent dream of the Mediterranean Goddess is shaped by the phantasmatic projection of paganism that Christianity created as its convenient Other. His characters long for a “maternal space” where they will be protected from mortality and left free to roam. Yet Fellini shows how such maternal space constantly fails, not because the Church has erased it, but because the utopia of unlimited enjoyment is a self-defeating fantasy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1474297625

ISBN 13

9781474297622

“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song”

Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern Period

By: Alessandro Guetta

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song”

Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern Period

By: Alessandro Guetta

This volume presents dozens of classical Hebrew texts translated into literary Italian. It is the first study of an almost ignored corpus, showing the degree of cultural and linguistic integration of the Jews of Italy long before the German Haskala.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004515372

ISBN 13

9789004515376

Confronting America

The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy

By: Alessandro Brogi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Confronting America

The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy

By: Alessandro Brogi

Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United States, Alessandro Brogi's original study reveals how the United States was forced by political opposition within these two core Western countries to reassess its own anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology. Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and Italian communists' own legitimacy and existence. Their anti-Americanism was mostly dogmatic and driven by the Soviet Union, but it was also, at crucial times, subtle and ambivalent, nurturing fascination with the American culture of dissent. The staunchly anticommunist United States, Brogi argues, found a successful balance to fighting the communist threat in France and Italy by employing diplomacy and fostering instances of mild dissent in both countries. Ultimately, both the French and Italian communists failed to adapt to the forces of modernization that stemmed both from indigenous factors and from American influence. Confronting America illuminates the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts behind the U.S.-communist confrontation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

549

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807877743

ISBN 13

9780807877746

The Hill Of Shining Souls

By: Emiliano D'alessandro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Hill Of Shining Souls

By: Emiliano D'alessandro

Emiliano D'Alessandro, through concrete narration, the obscure tragedy is told as seen by the protagonists, twelve thousand young men of the Italian army, the mamma’s boys of General Antonio Gandin who were stationed on the Greek island of Kefalonia. It was the month of September in 1943 when they had to decide if they were to cede their arms to the Germans or resist in honour of the Fatherland: the idea prevailed that you fell on your arms and did not give them up, and so it was! A fascinating reporting of the Italian past, a useful retrospective that puts into focus an event that is still waiting to be defined as to its role in the history of those years, but also the personal and human situation of Salvatore Di Rado who was still too young to die, perhaps the only one to have survived a firing squad in the Second World War, witness to his own odyssey illuminated by a sudden tormenting love, of a friendship consolidated day by day and of the vision of enchanted places. Through the protagonist, the symbol of youth sacrificed, abandoned and in the end forgotten, the novel retells the Italian story of a shameless war that the world seems to have wanted to forget. A singular narration where each action is swallowed up by another, then is quickly boiled together in the caricatured cauldron of the story now defrauded by a rampant indifference. A compelling text, that reawakens civil consciousness, at times brilliant and ironic, but overall an act of truth that reconstructs a tragedy from an original angle that has never been adequately investigated.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

120

Publisher

Babelcube Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

1547521317

ISBN 13

9781547521319

Renaissance Dream Cultures

By: Alessandro Arcangeli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Renaissance Dream Cultures

By: Alessandro Arcangeli

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation. The chapters examine a variety of oneiric experiences, since distinctions such as that between dreams and visions are themselves culturally specific and variable. Several developments of the period are relevant and consequently considered, from the introduction of the printing press and the humanist rediscovery of ancient texts to the religious reforms and the cultural encounters at the time of the first globalisation. At the centre of the narrative is the exceptional case of Girolamo Cardano, heterodox physician, mathematician, astrologer, autobiographer, dreamer and key dream theorist of the epoch. The Italian peninsula produced the first printed editions of many classical and medieval treatises, and, particularly between the 1560s and the 1610s, was also especially active in the writing of texts, both Latin and vernacular, fascinated by the oneiric experience and investigating it. Given the role of the visual in dreaming, images are also analysed. This book will be a recommended reading for scholars, students and non-specialist readers of cultural history, Renaissance studies and dream cultures.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

183

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040108083

ISBN 13

9781040108086

Bound in Venice

The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book

By: Alessandro Marzo Magno

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bound in Venice

The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book

By: Alessandro Marzo Magno

This early history of printed literature “delves into the delectable intrigues of Renaissance Venice with a degree of detail that will mesmerize readers” (La Repubblica). This accessible yet erudite history traces the incredible rise of publishing in the Republic of Venice, the Renaissance’s era of global capital of culture and trade. While a number of Venetian innovators drove this new enterprise, one in particular, Aldus Manutius, stands head and shoulders above the rest. Manutius tirelessly promoted the concept of reading for pleasure, and his Aldine Press commissioned the first modern typeface. Beginning in Venice and subsequently across much of the civilized world, bound printed editions of the Talmud, the Koran, the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, and classics of Greek and Latin poetry and theater began to circulate for the first time, leading to an unprecedented diffusion of human knowledge, and bringing about the birth of the modern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

175

Publisher

Europa Editions

Published Date

ISBN 10

160945152X

ISBN 13

9781609451523

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

By: Alessandro Romagnoli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

By: Alessandro Romagnoli

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317395077

ISBN 13

9781317395072

Book's by Alessandro Romagnoli

The Economic Development Process in the Middle East and North Africa

The Economic Development Process in the Middle East and North Africa

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

Biography of an Industrial Town

Biography of an Industrial Town

The Order Has Been Carried Out

The Order Has Been Carried Out

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song”

“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song”

Confronting America

Confronting America

The Hill Of Shining Souls

The Hill Of Shining Souls

Renaissance Dream Cultures

Renaissance Dream Cultures

Bound in Venice

Bound in Venice

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email