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The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

By: Lucia Ceci

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The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

By: Lucia Ceci

Lucia Ceci reconstructs the relationship between the Catholic Church and Fascism. New sources from the Vatican Archives throw fresh light on individual aspects of this complex relationship: the accession of Mussolini to power, the war in Ethiopia, the racial laws, the comparison between Pius XI and Pius XII. This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of this encounter, explaining the criteria that led Catholics to support a dictatorial, warmongering and racist regime. In contrast to the traditional periodization, the history begins with the childhood of Mussolini in the final years of the nineteenth century, and ends with the sudden collapse of his puppet regime, in 1945. This means to some extent placing in a different light the exceptional nature of the ventennio. The Italian original L’interesse superiore, Il Vaticano e l’Italia di Mussolini has won the “Friuli Storia” Prize for Studies of Contemporary History.

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9004328793

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The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

By: Lucia Ceci

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Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

A Global History

By: Lucia Ceci

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Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

A Global History

By: Lucia Ceci

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century presents a historical reconstruction of the ways in which Catholics have justified the recourse to political violence during the twentieth century, a period marked by major wars, nationalisms, decolonization, ideological clashes, and episodes of genocide. Legitimation processes are particularly complex when this violence is not endorsed by the state, and perhaps used against it. Depending on perspective, the protagonists of this radical form of collective action may be seen as ‘terrorists’ or ‘freedom fighters’. Written by a leading historian of contemporary Catholicism, this book examines a series of case studies from different parts of the world, selected because of the central role played by the Catholic religion. They range from Northern Ireland to the Basque Country, from the Philippines to Colombia, and from Mexico to Rwanda. It highlights how theological sources, paradigms of martyrdom, and symbols of the Christian tradition have provided a catalogue of reasons to give moral value to violence and promote it in the name of God. By looking at the history of Catholicism in global terms and adopting a transnational perspective, Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century sheds a critical light on the themes that are crucial to understanding the relationship between religion and violence. It will appeal to scholars and students working and studying in the fields of Modern and Contemporary History, Religious Studies, Terrorism Studies, Cultural and Global Studies, Intellectual History, and the History of Political Thought.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040160107

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Dark Mother

African Origins and Godmothers

By: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

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Dark Mother

African Origins and Godmothers

By: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archeologists, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs-ochre red and the pubic V-were taken by african migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents. The oldest sanctuary in the world was created in 40,000 BCE by african migrants in Har Karkom, later called Mt. Sinai, foundation place of judaism, christianity, and islam.Lucia documents the continuing memory of the dark mother and her values in prehistoric images of the dark mother, in historic black madonnas and in other dark women divinities whose sanctuaries are on african paths. She tracks the memory in rituals and stories of her sicilian grandmothers, in persecution of dark others in patriarchal Europe and the United States, in the rise of nonviolent dark others since the 1960s,in the banners of the 1995 world conference of women at Beijing, and in art. She finds the dark mother's values-justice with compassion, equality, and transformation-in everyday and celebratory rituals of the world's subaltern cultures-and suggests that the image and values are in the submerged memories of everyone.

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iUniverse

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059520841X

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How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

The Issue of Algerian Independence

By: Marialuisa Lucia Sergio

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How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

The Issue of Algerian Independence

By: Marialuisa Lucia Sergio

By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system. The complex relations between the Holy See and France, as well as those between the Vatican and the Episcopates and clergy of the overseas territories, are vital aspects of decolonisation, a topic which, to date, has been overlooked by historiography because of the impossibility of accessing documents relating to the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) held in the Vatican archives. The opening in March 2020 of the archives of Pius XII, the Pope who had succeeded in imposing the strategic role of the Holy See upon the international scene, has made a vast amount of unpublished documentary material available to scholars. This book is useful for all students and scholars interested in the Cold War, the history of contemporary Europe, the history of the Church, postcolonial studies, and religious phenomenon in post-World War II Europe.

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1000849066

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Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press

Intellectual Debates and Entangled Loyalties, 1933-1948

By: Lucia Admiraal

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Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press

Intellectual Debates and Entangled Loyalties, 1933-1948

By: Lucia Admiraal

During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in the Middle East took part in extensive debates on fascism in the public sphere. How did the rise of fascism impact the ways in which Jews in the region envisioned the past, present and future? Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press examines Jewish discussions on the positions and identities of Jews in the Middle East within the context of multifocal debates on fascism. Focussing on the Arabic Jewish press in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, it studies the ideas of its editors and main contributors and their intellectual networks. Putting those debates within the context of social, political and national reorientations following the end of the Ottoman Empire, the book uses an ideas-based and conceptual approach to also connect this history to global debates on fascism centred on the concepts of race, civilization and religion. In doing so, it situates Jewish discussions on fascism in the Middle East not only at the heart of Arab intellectual history, but also as part of a globalizing public sphere during the interwar, war and immediate post-war periods (1933-1948). The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755652770

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Child Victims

Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

By: Jane Morgan,Lucia Zedner

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Child Victims

Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

By: Jane Morgan,Lucia Zedner

Child Victims explores the range and extent of crimes committed against children, and assesses their impact. The testimony of over two hundred children gives voice, for the first time, to their experiences, their views, and their needs. It examines how children attain the status of 'victims' in the criminal justice system. Drawing on their recent research findings, the authors examine each stage of the legal process that a child encounters, from the initial reporting of the offence, through police investigation, to the trial itself. They contrast the specialist response to victims of child sexual abuse with the experiences of children who are victims of other crimes, thrust into an adult system which takes little account of their needs. Child Victims concludes by examining the role of support services and agencies dealing with child victims, and makes a number of key recommendations for future policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0198257007

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Shadows of the Slave Past

Memory, Heritage, and Slavery

By: Ana Lucia Araujo

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Shadows of the Slave Past

Memory, Heritage, and Slavery

By: Ana Lucia Araujo

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in slave depots, the Middle Passage, the arrival in the Americas, the daily life of forced labor, until the fight for emancipation and the abolition of slavery. Relying on a multitude of examples from the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the book discusses how different groups and social actors have competed to occupy the public arena by associating the slave past with other human atrocities, especially the Holocaust. Araujo explores how the populations of African descent, white elites, and national governments, very often carrying particular political agendas, appropriated the slave past by fighting to make it visible or conceal it in the public space of former slave societies.

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Routledge

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1135011974

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Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

By: Lucia Schellwies

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Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

By: Lucia Schellwies

As a result of the increasing globalization more and more organizations are operating internationally. Such multinational companies often rely on successful teamwork to reach goals and to compete on the fast-paced global market. Indeed, teamwork plays an important role and can lead to faster results. Teams, whose members come from different nations and backgrounds place special demands on operations, diversity clearly adds complexity and a longer learning curve for establishing effective processes. In the multicultural team, the role of emotions has gained increasing interest in the last years; practitioners report that where people work together, emotions are not far to seek. An awareness of emotions seems to be especially important as cultural differences in emotion processing and diversity among members may cause negative emotion and lead to conflict and misunderstandings what may have serious consequences reducing performance. The aim of this book is to identify challenges for multinational teams focusing on emotions within the team, and to propose emotional intelligence as an approach to multicultural team effectiveness.

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Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

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3954894157

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Examining Whiteness

Reading Clarice Lispector Through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

By: Lucia Villares

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Examining Whiteness

Reading Clarice Lispector Through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

By: Lucia Villares

Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation, however, seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. This paradox is the starting point for this analysis of the works of an author who - despite being born in the Ukraine - grew up to be an irreplacable presence in Brazilian literature. Non-Brazilian authors, such as the South African Bessie Head and the North American Toni Morrison, provide triggering concepts to help tackle a blind-spot in Brazilian culture: the issue of racial difference. From this new perspective, overlooked black characters in Lispector's work become crucial and relevant, and whiteness emerges as an unexamined set of norms.

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1351193899

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Collage

Revision de Grammaire

By: Lucia F. Baker

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Collage

Revision de Grammaire

By: Lucia F. Baker

Collage is one of the most widely used and highly respected programs for intermediate French courses. As in previous editions, Collage is a component program. Collage 4th Edition now consists of 3 volumes -- a review grammar, a cultural reader, and a literary reader -- that are coordinated by theme and by language, chapter by chapter, across all 3 books. The result is a very flexible program that can be used in any combination and so is easily adapted to suit a wide variety of instructors and courses. The new edition of Collage retains the flexible format that works so well in the classroom but offers a new look and new features, along with refreshing new readings and a streamlined grammar presentation. The fourth edition of Collage also introduces students to francophone countries and cultures throughout all of the components.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0070051623

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9780070051621

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

A Global History

By: Lucia Ceci

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Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

A Global History

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Book's by Lucia Ceci

The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

Dark Mother

Dark Mother

How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press

Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press

Child Victims

Child Victims

Shadows of the Slave Past

Shadows of the Slave Past

Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Examining Whiteness

Examining Whiteness

Collage

Collage

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

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