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Mussolini's War

Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943

By: John Gooch

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Mussolini's War

Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943

By: John Gooch

A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties, and an Allied invasion in 1943 that ushered in a terrible new era for the country. John Gooch's new history is the definitive account of Italy's war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a leadership and too many fronts on which to fight. Everywhere—whether in the USSR, the Western Desert, or the Balkans—Italian troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the dreams of pre-war Italian planners—a series of desperate improvisations against an allied force who could draw on global resources, and against whom Italy proved helpless.

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Simon and Schuster

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164313549X

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Becoming Neapolitan

Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples

By: John A. Marino

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Becoming Neapolitan

Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples

By: John A. Marino

2011 Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries managed to maintain a distinct social character while under Spanish rule. John A. Marino's study explores how the population of the city of Naples constructed their identity in the face of Spanish domination. As Western Europe’s largest city, early modern Naples was a world unto itself. Its politics were decentralized and its neighborhoods diverse. Clergy, nobles, and commoners struggled to assert political and cultural power. Looking at these three groups, Marino unravels their complex interplay to show how such civic rituals as parades and festival days fostered a unified Neapolitan identity through the assimilation of Aragonese customs, Burgundian models, and Spanish governance. He discusses why the relationship between mythical and religious representations in ritual practices allowed Naples's inhabitants to identify themselves as citizens of an illustrious and powerful sovereignty and explains how this semblance of stability and harmony hid the city's political, cultural, and social fissures. In the process, Marino finds that being and becoming Neapolitan meant manipulating the city's rituals until their original content and meaning were lost. The consequent widening of divisions between rich and poor led Naples's vying castes to turn on one another as the Spanish monarchy weakened. Rich in source material and tightly integrated, this nuanced, synthetic overview of the disciplining of ritual life in early modern Naples digs deep into the construction of Neapolitan identity. Scholars of early modern Italy and of Italian and European history in general will find much to ponder in Marino's keen insights and compelling arguments.

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JHU Press

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0801899397

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Meant to be Shared

The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints

By: Suzanne Boorsch,Douglas Cushing,Alexa Greist,Elisabeth Hodermarsky,Sinclaire Marber,John E. Moore,Heather Nolin

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Meant to be Shared

The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints

By: Suzanne Boorsch,Douglas Cushing,Alexa Greist,Elisabeth Hodermarsky,Sinclaire Marber,John E. Moore,Heather Nolin

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at the Yale University Art Gallery" held at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, December 18, 2015-April 24, 2016, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, January 29-May 8, 2017 and at the Syracuse University Art Galleries, New York, August 17-November 19, 2017.

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Yale University Press

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0300214391

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The Rhaeto-Romance Languages

By: Paola Beninca,John Haiman

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The Rhaeto-Romance Languages

By: Paola Beninca,John Haiman

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity, based on a number of common features, has been advanced. This book is the first general description of the Rhaeto-Romance languages to be written in English. It provides a critical examination of the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of the modern Rhaeto-Romance dialects within the broader perspective of Romance comparative linguistics.

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Routledge

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1134965486

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The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815

By: R. John Rath

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The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815

By: R. John Rath

When Austrian soldiers first set foot in Lombardy-Venetia in October, 1813, they were greeted everywhere as liberators and friends. In the spring of 1815, when Joachim Murat's efforts to establish a united Italy ended in miserable failure and when the Habsburgs announced the main features of the regime they intended to establish in their Italian provinces, the Venetians were still strongly pro-Austrian, but considerable anti-Habsburg feeling had developed among the Lombards. This carefully documented study of the first two years of Austrian reoccupation of Lombardy-Venetia examines all aspects of the Habsburg provisional regimes and draws some conclusions about the reasons for the different attitudes in the two provinces. In detailed sketches of the provisional governments of Venetia (Chapter I) and Lombardy (Chapter II) and an examination of Austrian economic policies and practices in both provinces (Chapter III), the author shows that although the governments of the two provinces shared many common traits, they differed in a number of significant ways. Actually, Venetia was much less efficiently governed than Lombardy; and the Lombards enjoyed at least a small measure of self-administration that was largely denied the Venetians. The Lombards were much more prosperous than their neighbors, yet they paid much less in taxes and were exempt from most of the burdensome military requisitions that the Austrians inflicted on the Venetians. In spite of these advantages, the relatively small nationalist movement in Austria's Italian provinces was almost entirely confined to Lombardy. The author examines public opinion in Lombardy-Venetia about liberal intrigues (Chapter IV); the relationship of secret societies to liberalism (Chapter V); the Brescian-Milanese conspiracy (Chapter VI) and the Austrian handling of that affair (Chapter VII); and the fiasco of Joachim Murat's "War of Italian Independence" (Chapter VIII).

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University of Texas Press

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147730181X

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Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De divisione liber

Critical Edition, Translation, Prolegomena, and Commentary

By: John Magee

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Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De divisione liber

Critical Edition, Translation, Prolegomena, and Commentary

By: John Magee

This volume provides the first critical edition of Boethius' De divisione. The importance of Boethius' treatise is twofold: it was widely read in the medieval schools, and it preserves the only known vestiges of Porphyry's commentary on Plato's Sophist and of Andronicus' treatise on diaeresis. The book is in four main sections: prolegomena in three parts, dealing with the date, source(s), and text of De divisione; critical text with apparatus and English translation; detailed philological and philosophical commentary; appendix, bibliography, and word index. This is the first edition of De divisione based on the earliest extant manuscripts, and the first complete commentary in any modern language. It will be of particular interest to students of later ancient and medieval philosophy and literature.

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BRILL

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9004321020

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Shakespeare’s Library. A Collection of the Plays Romances Novels Poems and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of his Works with Introductions and Notes

Vol. III

By: John Payne Collier,William Carew Hazlitt

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Shakespeare’s Library. A Collection of the Plays Romances Novels Poems and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of his Works with Introductions and Notes

Vol. III

By: John Payne Collier,William Carew Hazlitt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385394074

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Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty

By: John Vyvyan

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Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty

By: John Vyvyan

Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and All’s Well That Ends Well, the heroines bring to life the idea of love as the force that is awakened in the world by beauty which then leads the soul to perfection. Vyvyan believes that for Shakespeare, love was preeminent over human ideas of justice, that self-discovery was a supreme human experience, and that breaking faith with the ideal—as Agamemnon, Cressida, and Hector all do in Troilus and Cressida —sowed the seeds of tragedy. The author’s recognition of Shakespeare's use of allegory enables him to make sense of certain developments in these plays that seem weak or absurd from the psychological standpoint. He does not suggest that Shakespeare’s philosophy is the most important thing about his plays; it is simply one thing about them that ought to be known. The recognition of this philosophy enhances enjoyment of the plays, giving them a new dimension and richness. This edition contains a list of the author’s Shakespearean references and an enhanced index.

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Shepheard-Walwyn

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0856834084

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Composition5 & Opus 6

By: John Ryskamp

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Composition5 & Opus 6

By: John Ryskamp

Avant garde music after post-modernism, with references to Webern.

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Lulu.com

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1304019985

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9781304019981

Chopin

By: John Rink

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Chopin

By: John Rink

This anthology brings together representative examples of the most significant and engaging scholarly writing on Chopin by a wide range of authors. The essays selected for the volume portray a rounded picture of Chopin as composer, pianist and teacher of his music, and of his overall achievement and legacy. Historical perspectives are offered on Chopin’s biography ’as cultural discourse’, on the evolution and origins of his style, and on the contexts of given works. A fascinating contemporary overview of Chopin’s oeuvre is also provided. Seven source studies assess the status and role of Chopin’s notational practices as well as some enigmatic sketch material. Essays in the field of performance studies scrutinise the ’cultural work’ carried out by Chopin’s performances and discuss his playing style along with that of his contemporaries and students. This paves the way for a body of essays on analysis, aesthetics and reception, considering aspects of genre and including an overview of analytical approaches to select works. The remaining essays address Chopin’s handling of form, rhythm and other musical elements, as well as the ’meaning’ of his msuic. The collection as a whole underscores one of the most important aspects of Chopin’s legacy, namely the paradoxical manner in which he drew from the past - in particular, certain eighteenth-century traditions - while stretching inherited conventions and practices to such an extent that a highly original ’music of the future’ was heralded.

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Routledge

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1000152049

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9781000152043

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. I

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. I

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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338513000X

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The Little Slaves of the Harp

Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York

By: John E. Zucchi

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The Little Slaves of the Harp

Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York

By: John E. Zucchi

During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thousands of Italian children who were indentured to padrone and then uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy and taken to Paris, London, and New York to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773517553

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9780773517554

Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean

A Historical Perspective

By: John A. Consiglio,Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva,Gabriel Tortella,Monika Pohle Fraser,Iain L. Fraser

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Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean

A Historical Perspective

By: John A. Consiglio,Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva,Gabriel Tortella,Monika Pohle Fraser,Iain L. Fraser

This volume presents a panoramic picture of the many national and international trends and developments, factors, customs, and events that have characterised banking in the Mediterranean area over the past two centuries. During this period banking in the Mediterranean evolved distinct characteristics, several going well beyond the restricted realities of colonial relations. The range of issues covered by the book is extensive and includes both national banking evolution and pan-regional topics. The chapters touch upon various aspects of Iberian, Italian, French, Greek, Maltese, Moroccan, and Ottoman banking history, focusing particularly on issues relating to central banking, numismatics, archival recording, and pan-Mediterranean economic dynamics. The history of certain specific institutions is also considered, including the Imperial Ottoman Bank, The Ionian Bank, The Banque d'Etat du Maroc, and others. Bringing together papers by leading banking and finance historians which were first presented at the European Association for Banking History conference held in Malta in June 2007, this volume offers an invaluable insight towards a wider and more detailed understanding of the roles of banking and finance in Mediterranean economic history. Seen in a context of what has hitherto been something of a historical vacuum in terms of the coverage of much writing on European banking and financial history, and the importance given to the Mediterranean region's banking history in its own right, this is an innovative book that both contributes towards our knowledge the subject, and establishes a pattern for further work in this important area of European economic history.

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Routledge

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1351956027

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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music

By: John Hawkins

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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music

By: John Hawkins

Hawkins' pioneering contribution to music history remains of significant interest today despite its unfavourable comparison to Burney's in his lifetime.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108029965

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Florence and Beyond

Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy : Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy

By: John M. Najemy

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Florence and Beyond

Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy : Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy

By: John M. Najemy

This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.

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Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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077272038X

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9780772720382

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

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The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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1931707464

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9781931707466

Book's by John Edward Dell

Mussolini's War

Mussolini's War

Becoming Neapolitan

Becoming Neapolitan

Meant to be Shared

Meant to be Shared

The Rhaeto-Romance Languages

The Rhaeto-Romance Languages

The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815

The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815

Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De divisione liber

Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De divisione liber

Shakespeare’s Library. A Collection of the Plays Romances Novels Poems and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of his Works with Introductions and Notes

Shakespeare’s Library. A Collection of the Plays Romances Novels Poems and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of his Works with Introductions and Notes

Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty

Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty

Composition5 & Opus 6

Composition5 & Opus 6

Chopin

Chopin

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

The Little Slaves of the Harp

The Little Slaves of the Harp

Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean

Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music

Florence and Beyond

Florence and Beyond

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

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