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  • On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

    by Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic and geographic factors that cause their growth and decline. Noteworthy too is Botero’s strikingly ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Greatness of Cities

    by Geoffrey Symcox ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688–1697

    From the Guerre d’Escadre to the Guerre de Course

    by Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The French navy that fought in the Nine Years War was essentially Colbert's creation. Earlier in the century Richelieu had given France the beginnings of a navy: ships, ports, a corps of officers and an administra tive structure. But most of his work was undone by neglect in the years after his death, and the task of making France a maritime power had to begin again under Louis XIV. Colbert's ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Acculturation and Its Discontents

    The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion

    by David N. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter Reill, Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.The contributors offer rich portraits of the many vibrant forms of cultural and artistic expression ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Braudel Revisited

    The Mediterranean World 1600-1800

    by Gabriel Piterberg, Geoffrey Symcox, Teofilo Ruiz ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

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  • How Should We Then Live? (L'Abri 50th Anniversary Edition)

    The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

    by Francis A. Schaeffer ...
    As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. ... Read more

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  • Anatomy of the Red Brigades

    The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

    by Alessandro Orsini ...
    Translated by Sarah J. Nodes ...
    The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Mussolini's Intellectuals

    Fascist Social and Political Thought

    by A. James Gregor ...
    Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Social History of Art, Volume 2

    Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

    by Arnold Hauser ...
    First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...

    $25.19 USD

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Antonio A. Santucci, Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm, Joseph Buttigieg, Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Graziella DiMauro ...
    “What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from the prefaceAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world’s greatest cultural critics. ... Read more

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