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  • Soft Soil, Black Grapes

    The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Book 21 - Nation of Nations
    Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book DesignFrom Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America’s most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the ... Read more

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  • Gastrofascism and Empire

    Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
    Food stood at the centre of Mussolini's attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming Ethiopia into Italy's granary to establish self-sufficiency, demographic expansion and strengthen Italy's international political position. While ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Making Italian America

    Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    Fourteen cultural history essays exploring the relationship between Italian Americans, consumer culture, and the American identity.How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land? And how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2

    Art and Culture since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata Inserra, Laura E Ruberto ...
    This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Food Mobilities

    Making World Cuisines

    Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Book 1 - Culinaria
    Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global Jewish Foodways

    A History

    Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series At Table
    The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

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  • Slow Food

    The Case for Taste

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Take a breath.... Read slowly.How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown ... Read more

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  • Living the Revolution

    Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

    by Jennifer Guglielmo ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial ... Read more

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  • Are Italians White?

    How Race is Made in America

    Edited by Jennifer Guglielmo, Salvatore Salerno ...
    This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity. ... Read more

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  • Porta Palazzo

    The Anthropology of an Italian Market

    by Rachel E. Black, Carlo Petrini ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time—traditional markets are no longer the primary place to buy food—they remain popular destinations. In an age of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • In the Name of the Mother

    Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

    by Samuele F. S. Pardini ...
    In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in ... Read more

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