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'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating’ Lucy
Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the
rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals
and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the
seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in
shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached
hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that
promised to build a ‘New Roman Empire’, and make Italy a great
power once again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives
and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of
violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Benito Mussolini, they
would systematically destroy the organisations of the left,
murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and
Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart
the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Drawing
widely from accounts of people across the political spectrum –
fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims,
perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and
its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.
The first history of Italian football to be written in English,
'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with
vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots
and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world.
'Calcio' tells the story of Italian football from its origins in
the 1890's to the present day. It takes us through a history of
great players and teams, of style, passion and success, but also of
violence, cynicism, catenaccio tactics and corruption. We meet the
personalities that have shaped this history - from the Italian
heroes to the foreigners that failed, the model professionals to
the mavericks. 'Calcio' evokes the triumphs (the 1982 World Cup
victory) and the tragedies (Meroni, the 'Italian George Best',
killed by his number one fan), set against a backdrop of paranoia
and intrigue, in a country where the referee is seen as corrupt
until proven otherwise. Calcio is no longer a game. It is sometimes
difficult to define it as a sport. It is certainly big business and
a fanatical civic religion. There is no moral code here. Winners
are always right, losers always wrong. This history of Italian
football reveals all about the richest and toughest league in the
world.
'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett,
Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of
Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at
war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism
were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new
movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for
politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build
a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power once again.
Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the
proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant
masculinity. Led by Benito Mussolini, they would systematically
destroy the organisations of the left, murdering and torturing
anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John
Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years
between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Drawing widely from accounts of
people across the political spectrum - fascists, anti-fascists,
communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders - he
tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still,
disturbingly, reverberates to this day.
'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times
Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy could boast the fastest-growing economy in the world, as rural society disappeared almost overnight.
In The Archipelago, acclaimed historian John Foot chronicles Italy's tumultuous history from the post-war period to the present. From the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the artistic peak of neorealist cinema, he examines both the corrupt and celebrated sides of the country. While often portrayed as a failed state on the margins of Europe, Italy has instead been at the centre of innovation and change - a political laboratory. This new history tells the fascinating story of a country always marked by scandal but with the constant ability to re-invent itself.
Comprising original research and lively insights, The Archipelago chronicles the crises and modernisations of over seventy years of post-war Italy, from its fields, factories, squares and housing estates to the political intrigue of Rome.
In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the
Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a
place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded,
redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fascist
gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and
therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The
corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked
for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital. Basaglia,
the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of
oppression in which he had been schooled, but he would have none of
this. The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the
inside, bringing freedom and democracy to the patients, the nurses
and the psychiatrists working in that 'total institution'. Inspired
by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R. D. Laing, Erving
Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of
experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia's seminal
work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste
fed into and substantially contributed to the national and
international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the
'Basaglia law') which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian
asylum system. The first comprehensive study of this revolutionary
approach to mental health care, The Man Who Closed the Asylums is a
gripping account of one of the most influential movements in
twentiethcentury psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we
see mental illness. Basaglia's work saved countless people from a
miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson
in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the
establishment peddles to the public as common sense.
Last year three billion people--including 20 million in the United
States--watched Italy's extraordinary victory over France in the
World Cup final. It was a down-and-dirty game, marred by French
superstar Zidane's head-butting of Italian defender Materazzi. But
millions were also exposed to the poetry, force, and excellence of
the Italian game; as operatic as Verdi and as cunning as
Machiavelli, it seemed to open a window into the Italian soul. John
Foot's epic history show what makes Italian soccer so unique.
Mixing serious analysis and comic storytelling, Foot describes its
humble origins in northern Italy in the 1890s to its present day
incarnation where, in a country driven by regional rivalries,
soccer is the national civic religion. A story that is reminiscent
of Gangs of New York and A Clockwork Orange, Foot shows how the
Italian game--like its political culture--has been overshadowed by
big business, violence, conspiracy, and tragedy, how demagogues
like Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi have used the game to
further their own political ambitions. But Winning at All Costs
also celebrates the sweet moments--the four World Cup victories,
the success of Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, the role soccer
played in the resistance to Nazism, and the great managers and
players who show that Italian soccer is as irresistible as Italy
itself.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection
reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a
vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal
field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William
Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as
almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the
day-to-day workings of society.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT022292London:
printed for R. Davis, 1769. 51, 1]p.; 8
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