Author: Gabriele PepePublisher:
ISBN: 9788893911634
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Notion of «primus Inter Pares» in Italian Public Life Today
Author: Gabriele PepePublisher:
ISBN: 9788893911634
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The History of Nations
Author: Henry Cabot LodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Making Italian America
Author: Simone CinottoPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823256278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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 marketing to explore these questions by focusing on the case of an ethnic group whose material culture and lifestyles have been central to American life: Italian Americans. As embodied in fashion, film, food, popular music, sports, and many other representations and commodities, Italian American identities have profoundly fascinated, disturbed, and influenced American and global culture. Discussing in fresh ways topics as diverse as immigrant women’s fashion, critiques of consumerism in Italian immigrant radicalism, the Italian American influence in early rock ’n’ roll, ethnic tourism in Little Italy, and Guido subculture, Making Italian America recasts Italian immigrants and their children as active consumers who, since the turn of the twentieth century, have creatively managed to articulate relations of race, gender, and class and create distinctive lifestyles out of materials the marketplace offered to them. The success of these mostly working-class people in making their everyday culture meaningful to them as well as in shaping an ethnic identity that appealed to a wider public of shoppers and spectators looms large in the political history of consumption. Making Italian America appraises how immigrants and their children redesigned the market to suit their tastes and in the process made Italian American identities a lure for millions of consumers. Fourteen essays explore Italian American history in the light of consumer culture, across more than a century-long intense movement of people, goods, money, ideas, and images between Italy and the United States—a diasporic exchange that has transformed both nations. Simone Cinotto builds an imaginative analytical framework for understanding the ways in which ethnic and racial groups have shaped their collective identities and negotiated their place in the consumers’ emporium and marketplace. Grounded in the new scholarship in transnational U.S. history and the transfer of cultural patterns, Making Italian America illuminates the crucial role that consumption has had in shaping the ethnic culture and diasporic identities of Italians in America. It also illustrates vividly why and how those same identities—incorporated in commodities, commercial leisure, and popular representations—have become the object of desire for millions of American and global consumers.
The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge
Author: Charles BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Hibbert Lectures
Author: The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Charles BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Its Relations to Modern Thought and Knowledge
Author: Charles BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Popular Science
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
The Popular Science Monthly
Author: On Consolation
Author: Michael IgnatieffPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250810086
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.