Title:From Caporetto to Garibaldiland: interventionist war culture as a culture of defeat
Author(s):JONES, Mark WilliamDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of interventionist war culture during the period beginning with the defeat of Caporetto and ending with the occupation of Fiume. As a result of the invasion of Italy, interventionists were ...
Title:From Phantom to Icon: The Mythogenesis of Count Lamoraal Van Egmont (1522-1568)
Author(s):RITTERSMA, Rengenier C.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article tries to explain why and how Count Lamoraal van Egmont (1522-1568) became a mythical figure in European culture. After evaluating the existing myth literature, this paper tries to find out what the textual ...
Title:'Furnished with Gentlemen': The ambassador’s house in sixteenth-century Italy
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article responds to recent calls for a ‘new diplomatic history’ of early modern Europe with an investigation of an important subset of Renaissance diplomatic practices: those related to the house, household and ...
Title:fYRoM: The other candidate
Author(s):BLANCO SIO-LOPEZ, CristinaDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:Genocide and the Terror of History
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas ...
Title:German volunteers in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento 1834-70
Author(s):GÖHDE, Ferdinand NicolasDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Between 1834 and 1870, Germans participated in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento in the ranks of both Mazzini and Garibaldi and of the Pope and Francis II of Naples. While acknowledging the difficulty in ...
Title:Gestrandetes Flaggschiff. Die Universität der Völkerfreundschaft in Moskau
Author(s):RUPPRECHT, TobiasDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010. This showpiece of Soviet internationalism cultivated the ideal of being ideologically neutral and rendering pure development assistance. ...
Title:Giulio Einaudi in esilio
Author(s):MUNARI, TommasoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Shortly after the armistice of 8 September 1943, the Italian publisher Giulio Einaudi (1912-1999), like many other anti-Fascists, fled his country and took refuge in Switzerland, settling in Lausanne. During those same ...