Denis Mack Smith

This biography of Giuseppe Mazzini re-examines his ideological impact and portrays Mazzini as a vigorous proponent of patriotism, and a pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity. His ideas also brought him into contact with Marx, Carlyle, Mill and Bakunin.

Mazzini

Cavour

Mack Smith se ha dado a la tarea de elaborar un retrato fiel del controvertido personaje con base en una acuciosa investigaci n de documentos y testimonios. el resultado es una peculiar biograf a de Mussolini que arroja nueva luz en los aspectos hist ricos y sociales de su tiempo.

Mussolini

Questa è una biografia politica di Benito Mussolini, non una storia dell'Italia fascista. Mussolini non nacque grande, né la grandezza gli fu imposta dal corso degli eventi. La strada che lo portò fuori dall'oscurità dovette aprirsela con la sua ambizione, traendo il massimo partito dalle occasioni che la fortuna pose sul suo cammino. Morendo, nel 1945, lasciò il suo Paese distrutto dalla sconfitta militare e dalla guerra civile; per sua stessa ammissione, era divenuto l'uomo più odiato d'Italia.

Christopher Duggan

Moses I. Finley

A history of the small but significant island of Sicily discusses the cultural mix left as a legacy by the civilizations who have dominated the island in the past and the progressive material impoverishment that the island has suffered

A History of Sicily

Italy

DIVGiuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and fascinating personality, his ideas were influential throughout Europe. Yet successive Italian governments, fearing the consequences of his belief in democracy and revolution, deliberately obscured his achievements: there have been few modern studies of Mazzini and no biography in English since 1902. Denis Mack Smith's major new account reexamines Mazzini's ideological impact and his place in the political and intellectual world of the mid-nineteenth century. Based on profound scholarship and immense archival research, the book recreates Mazzini's long years of poverty and exile in London and the networks of friends, associates, and enemies that brought him into contact with the greatest European figures of the age, among them Marx, Carlyle, Mill, and Bakunin. Mazzini is revealed as an acute but largely unrecognized prophet of the idea of a European community: he saw nationalism as a step toward larger and more harmonious confederations. Adept at inspiring admiration and animosity equally, Mazzini affronted the pope by his demand for religious reform, Karl Marx by his powerful critique of communism, and many of his less enlightened contemporaries for his campaigns on behalf of social security, universal suffrage, and women's rights. Yet he was universally venerated for his brilliance, humanity, and wisdom, and even his critics agreed that he left an enduring mark on his time./div

Italy and its Monarchy

Making of Italy, 1796-1866, The

Geschichte Siziliens und der Sizilianer

“The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary blood-thirstiness...combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence...one of the most severe indictments of Mussolini ever penned.”—Sunday Times. An unflinching portrait of a supreme opportunist. Although Mussolini considered himself a man of destiny, he program consisted of little more than aggression overseas, suppression at home, and an aping of Hitler's racial laws. In the end, that “destiny” led to his nation's collapse and his own destruction.

A study of the Italian leader's life from 3 viewpoints; his own with an autobiography, his contemporaries with eyewitness observations, and modern historians with objective appraisals.

A Great Life in Brief

Garibaldi

An important study of the Risorgimento. devoted to seven crucial months in 1860.

A Study in Political Conflict

Cavour and Garibaldi 1860

Finalmente in edizione economica la Storia d'Italia che ha rinnovato il modo di fare storia nel nostro paese.

Storia d'Italia dal 1861 al 1997

Mussolini's Roman Empire

Traces the life and political career of Mussolini, recounts the rise of fascism, and attempts to clarify the motivations of the Italian dictator.

A new edition of the classic historical text on Italy

A Political History

Modern Italy

Rosamond E. Mack

From Italian textiles featuring Islamic and Asian motifs to ceramics and glassware that reflected Syrian techniques and ornamental concepts, this book gives an extraordinary view of the influence of imported Oriental goods in Italy over three crucial centuries of artistic development, from 1300 to 1600.".

Denis Mack Smith

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