"Drawing on a wide range of studies of Italian migrants to a dozen different countries, Donna Gabaccia puts the modern Italian diaspora in historical context, charting the emergence of this one regionally fragmented diaspora as a nationally conscious cultural group. Italy's Many…
This book identifies a strand of what it calls "Accidental Orientalism" in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through historical accident and who wrote about their experiences in Italian,…
This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized.
This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized. The story begins with t…
Nationes, Gentes und die Musik im Mittelalter
Nationes, Gentes und die Musik im Mittelalter
The notion that ideas and judgments about music are based on cultural-specific and national frames of reference and ideologies was not invented in the modern era. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume examines the role played by notions of communities such as Germ…
'Nationes', 'Gentes' und die Musik im Mittelalter
The notion that ideas and judgments about music are based on culturally specific and national frames of reference and ideologies was not invented in the modern era. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume examines the role played by notions of communities such as Ge…
Publisher description: When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. T…
1572 kommt ein europäischer Reisender an den Hof des Moguln-Kaisers Akbar in Indien und behauptet, dessen Onkel zu sein. Tatsächlich scheinen sie verbunden durch eine geheimnisvolle Florentinerin, die schönste Frau der damals bekannten Welt.
1572 kommt ein europäischer Reisender an den Hof des Moguln-Kaisers Akbar in Indien und behauptet, dessen Onkel zu sein. Tatsächlich scheinen sie verbunden durch eine geheimnisvolle Florentinerin, die schönste Frau der damals bekannten Welt.