Author: Library of Congress. Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A List of Atlases and Maps Applicable to the World War
Author: Library of Congress. Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783892122
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Illustrated Guide to the Valleys of the Biellese Region to the South of Monte Rosa. [With Plates, Illustrations, Including Portraits, and a Map.]
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Author: Pia PadovaniP. Lee Phillips' Maps and Atlases of the WWI Period
Author: Philip Lee PhillipsPublisher: G. B. Manasek Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
World's Fairs Italian-Style
Author: Cristina Della ColettaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442658096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth. World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination – an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism. Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity.
Italy, Rome and the Environs
Author: Treves (Firm)Florence and Its Environs
Author: Treves (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71
Author: Monika PoettingerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350014028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation. Covering various aspects of politics, economics, culture and society, this book examines the impact that the short-lived experience of becoming the political and administrative centre of the Kingdom of Italy had on the Tuscan city, both immediately and in the years that followed. It reflects upon the urbanising changes that affected the appearance of the city and the introduction of various economic and cultural innovations. The volume also analyses the crisis caused by the eventual relocation of the capital to Rome and the subsequent bankruptcy of the communality which hampered Florence on the long road to modernity. Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71 is a fascinating study for all students and scholars of modern Italian history.
Rome and the Environs
Author: Guida alle streghe in Italia
Author: Andrea RomanazziPublisher: Venexia Editrice
ISBN: 8897688691
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Un viaggio tra i borghi, le valli e le foreste incantate che hanno ospitato i raduni delle streghe. Questi vengono rievocati insieme alla caccia alle streghe, che fece dell'herbara un'entità malefica legata al demonio, e all'eredità pagana, i cui simboli resistettero all'avvento del cristianesimo e ai tentativi dell'Inquisizione di cancellarli. Regione per regione, l'autore narra le leggende e le tradizioni che fecero di queste zone la dimora preferita di maghe e fattucchiere e offre al lettore, grazie a mappe, indirizzi e consigli pratici, gli strumenti per organizzare veri e propri itinerari magici tra i sentieri di campagna e gli anfratti nascosti del territorio italiano, in cui guaritrici e sciamane raccoglievano le erbe medicamentose e officiavano i sacri riti in onore dei loro dèi.