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1. |  | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | History | Intellectual History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the presentAuthor: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Postcolonial Studies | European History | African History | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: Jewish life in renaissance ItalyAuthor: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Renaissance History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern ItalyAuthor: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decorationAuthor: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | HistoryPublisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's ItalyAuthor: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussol . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretationAuthor: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | BiologyPublisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: Italo Balbo: a Fascist lifeAuthor: Segrè, Claudio G Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshi . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance cityAuthor: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Fear at the edge: state terror and resistance in Latin AmericaAuthor: Corradi, Juan E 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.The c . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South AsiaAuthor: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Politics | Asian History | ReligionPublisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | | 19. |  | Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more]Similar Items |
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