Alexander Lee

A survey of the darker cultural elements that shaped the works of Renaissance-era master artists reveals the power politics, bigotry and corruption that overshadowed period Italy. 40,000 first printing.

Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

The Ugly Renaissance

A comprehensive, authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history's most unjustly infamous characters.

His Life and Times

Machiavelli

Between 1949 and 1972, Australia became the largest centre of violent Croatian nationalism outside of Europe. This book reveals how radical Croatian groups – responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents – were allowed to proliferate, thanks to the disinterest and tacit support of Australia’s governing Liberal Party. Of all the Eastern and Southern European migrants who arrived in post-war Australia, only Croatians formed groups that Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) considered an actual and continuing danger to domestic security. These communities brought with them a potent blend of nationalist and anti-communist ideology that the Liberal government encouraged, viewing it as electorally useful in the Cold War context. The relationship between the Liberal Party and violent Croatian nationalism became one of the most bitter partisan controversies of the era and had real effects on Australian electoral politics, especially the seminal 1972 election. Drawing primarily on archival research, this book demystifies this controversial period. It examines the real relationship between the Liberal Party, the Labor Party, and violent Croatian nationalist groups. Rather than defending or condemning the actions of the 1949–1972 Liberal-led government or Croatian extremist groups, it provides the first comprehensive historical account of how ideology, partisan politics, and Cold War anxieties allowed this form of violent extremism to take root in Australia. This book will be of interest to researchers in the history of terrorism, nationalism, Australian politics, Croatian politics, and the politics of exile and emigres.

Friends in High Places

Croatian Nationalist Groups in Australia 1949-1972

Brian Jeffrey Maxson

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494–1559). During those turbulent years, governments rose and fell with dizzying regularity. Some changes of regime were peaceful; others were more violent. But whenever a new reggimento took power, old social tensions were laid bare and new challenges emerged – any of which could easily threaten its survival. This provoked a variety of responses, both from newly established regimes and from their opponents. Constitutional reforms were proposed and enacted; civic rituals were developed; works of art were commissioned; literary works were penned; and occasionally, aspects of material culture were pressed into service, as well. Comparative in approach and broad in scope, it offers a provocative new view of the diverse political, culture, and economic factors, which ensured the survival (or demise) of regimes – not only in "major" polities like Florence, Rome, and Venice, but also in less-well-studied regions like Savoy. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, political, and military history.

The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559

As good as gold.,As good as gold

Buy a broom! ; the words by D. A. O'Meara ; sung (in character) by Madame Vestris

The Bavarian girl's song

Buy a broom

The first comprehensive, synoptic study of humanistic ideas of Empire in the period c.1250-1402, Humanism and Empire offers a radical new interpretation of fourteenth-century political thought, and raises wide-ranging questions about the foundations of modern constitutional ideas and the origins of the concept of liberty.

The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-century Italy

Humanism and Empire

An Admired Tyrolienne in the Operetta The Swiss Swains

I Am a Merry Switzer Girl

Whiz and Joey take a trip down memory lane when they try to get back into the magic business. Right away they are pulled back into detective mode--but it looks like magic has taken place. How could a diamond disappear without anyone near it? And this is only the beginning! As they close in on solving the crime, it takes a drastic turn for the worse. Will the perpetrator figure out they know too much and try to eliminate the Tanner-Dent Detective Agency? They must take that chance and follow the clues to the end. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-946650-03-0

A Tanner-Dent Mystery

Whiz Tanner and the Vanishing Diamond

Song

Napolitaine I Am Dreaming of Thee

O'er the Blue Waters

Aulus Cornelius Celsus

In Eight Books, Latin and English

Aur. Cor. Celsus on Medicine

Challenging the familiar view of Francesco Petrarca as the ‘father of humanism’, this book offers a comprehensive re-interpretation of Petrarch’s debt to the theology of St. Augustine, and advances a provocative new reading of the development of humanism in Italy.

Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy

Petrarch and St. Augustine

From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.

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