Title:Faide e parentele : Lo stato genovese visto dalla Fontanabuona
Author(s):RAGGIO, OsvaldoDate:1990Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Visto dalla Fontanabuona - un frammento della Repubblica oligarchica genovese -, il processo di formazione dello stato moderno appare connotato da protagonisti e dinamiche sociali che un'ottica storiografica concentrata ...
Title:Famiglie e potere. Il ceto dirigente di Lugano e Mendrisio tra Sei e Settecento
Author(s):SCHNYDER, MarcoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il libro di Marco Schnyder, nutrito da ricerche nuove e sostenuto da un ampio lavoro di sintesi sulla società suddita dei baliaggi subalpini, colma un vuoto della storiografia e ne fa un'opera estremamente preziosa per chi ...
Title:Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe. Britain and Italy Compared
Author(s):BERNINI, StefaniaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Throughout the postwar period, changes in individual behaviour and legal reforms have transformed traditional notions of family life throughout Western Europe. However, interpretations of what constituted a desirable family ...
Title:Fanciulli e giovani: Crescere a Firenze nel Rinascimento
Author(s):TADDEI, IlariaDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nel corso del Quattrocento crebbe a Firenze l’interesse delle autorità civili e religiose per l’infanzia e la puerizia e, allo stesso tempo, si rafforzò la consapevolezza delle differenze di età. La creazione di confraternite ...
Title:Ferdinando Marescalchi (1754-1816) : Un collezionista italiano nella Parigi napoleonica
Author(s):PRETI HAMARD, MonicaDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Stendhal, di passaggio a Bologna nel 1817, segnalava in particolare "la galerie de cet aimable comte Marescalchi, que nous avons vu nous donner des si jolies fêtes dans sa maison des Champs-Élysées". Il mobilio parigino - ...
Title:Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions
Author(s):O'MALLEY, AidanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the 1980s, Field Day brought together some of the most important names in Irish artistic life—Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, David Hammond and Thomas Kilroy—to articulate a cultural ...
Title:Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author(s):QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE, Laure; CASSIS, YoussefDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our understanding of the workings and history of financial centres in the nineteenth ...
Title:Finding Europe. Discourses on margins, communities, images ca. 13th - ca. 18th centuries
Author(s):MOLHO, Anthony; CURTO, Diogo RamadaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe's values, and another discourse, fashioned ...
Title:Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice
Author(s):CATTANEO, AngeloDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining ...
Title:Free trade nation. Commerce, consumption, and civil society in modern Britain
Author(s):TRENTMANN, FrankDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to ...
Title:Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Author(s):SKINNER, Quentin; VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity ...
Title:Friedensdialoge im Kalten Krieg: Eine Geschichte der Katholiken in der Bundesrepublik 1957-1983
Author(s):GERSTER, DanielDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Das atomare Wettrüsten des Kalten Krieges veränderte das Denken und Sprechen über Krieg und Frieden. Daniel Gerster untersucht, welche Beiträge die Katholiken der Bundesrepublik in diesen öffentlichen Debatten geleistet ...
Title:From Florence to the Mediterranean and beyond: essays in honour of Anthony Molho
Author(s):MOLHO, Anthony; CURTO, Diogo Ramada; DURSTELLER, Eric R.; KIRSHNER, Julius; TRIVELLATO, Francesca; KONIORDOS, NikiDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Omaggio alla carriera e all'opera di Anthony Molho, questi due volumi offrono nuove prospettive su un ampio spettro di dibatti riguardanti la storia di Firenze, della Toscana, dell'Europa e del Mediterraneo. Toccano temi ...