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A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with
an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With
the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century
Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out
systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to
think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid,
unpretentious prose... One of the greatest human testaments of the
era' Philip Roth 'Levi's voice is especially affecting, so clear,
firm and gentle, yet humane and apparently untouched by anger,
bitterness or self-pity... If This Is a Man is miraculous, finding
the human in every individual who traverses its pages' Philippe
Sands 'The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest
writers... One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of
his experiences with a gentle voice' Guardian '[What] gave it such
power... was the sheer, unmitigated truth of it; the sense of what
a book could achieve in terms of expanding one's own knowledge and
understanding at a single sitting... few writers have left such a
legacy... A necessary book' Independent
First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing
attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and
Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions
between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking early
nineteenth-century Italy as a special study, it uses the
exceptionally rich documentary sources from this time to examine
such issues as charity, repression, the reasons why families
suffered poverty and what strategies they adopted for survival. In
this study, Stuart Woolf takes full account of recent work in
historical demography and in sociological studies of poverty and
the welfare state to produce this original and thoughtful work.
This book will be of interest to those studying the history of
poverty, class and the welfare state.
First Published in 1979, A History of Italy 1700-1860 provides a
comprehensive overview of Italy's political history from 1700-1860.
Divided in five parts it deals with themes like the re-emergence of
Italy; Italy as the 'pawn' of European diplomacy; social
physiognomy of the Italian states; problems of the government;
enlightenment and despotism (1760-90); the offensive against the
Church; revolution and moderation (1789-1814); revolution and the
break with the past; rationalization and social conservatism; the
search for independence (1815-47); legitimacy and conspiracy;
alternative paths towards a new Italy; and the cost of independence
(1848-61). It fills a major gap and presents a thoughtful and
well-integrated political narrative of this complex period in
Italy's development. This book is an essential read for students
and scholars of Italian history and European history.
First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing
attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and
Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions
between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking early
nineteenth-century Italy as a special study, it uses the
exceptionally rich documentary sources from this time to examine
such issues as charity, repression, the reasons why families
suffered poverty and what strategies they adopted for survival. In
this study, Stuart Woolf takes full account of recent work in
historical demography and in sociological studies of poverty and
the welfare state to produce this original and thoughtful work.
This book will be of interest to those studying the history of
poverty, class and the welfare state.
Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively
biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars.
But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious
programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force
the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the
experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe
explores the implications of such a project for France and its
relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of
ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes
of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their
scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the
mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations
subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and
adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book
is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic
years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism,
but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising
tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural
heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of
France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of
each nation state.
Nationalism has become so integral a part of life in Europe today
that it is virtually impossible not to identify oneself with a
nation-state, and yet nationalism is historically a modern
phenomenon. This reader of classic texts draws on authors spanning
a broad chronological period and from a variety of European
countries--including John Stuart Mill and Otto Bauer--to explore
the theme of nationalism in Europe. This book provides texts long
enough for comprehensive critical study and makes available the
central building blocks for informed theoretical discussion.
Contributors: Stuart Woolf, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Otto
Bauer, Marcel Mauss, C. A. Macartney, Federico Chabod, John
Breuilly, Joshua A. Fishman and Bruno Tobia.
Nationalism has become so integral a part of life in Europe today
that it is virtually impossible not to identify oneself with a
nation-state, and yet nationalism is historically a modern
phenomenon. This reader of classic texts draws on authors spanning
a broad chronological period and from a variety of European
countries--including John Stuart Mill and Otto Bauer--to explore
the theme of nationalism in Europe. This book provides texts long
enough for comprehensive critical study and makes available the
central building blocks for informed theoretical discussion.
Contributors: Stuart Woolf, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Otto
Bauer, Marcel Mauss, C. A. Macartney, Federico Chabod, John
Breuilly, Joshua A. Fishman and Bruno Tobia.
Napoleon's wars were only a preliminary step in his larger plan to
establish a rational state which would increase the pace of
society's modernization. "Napoleon's Integration of Europe" studies
the implications of this project for the relationship between
France and the rest of Europe. Through a systematic comparison of
the experiences of French domination in the majority of European
states, Stuart Woolf examines the problems encountered by French
bureaucrats in ruling a progressively expanding empire, and
explores, through the eyes of the populations subjected to French
rule, the nature of collaboration and resistance.
"Napoleon's Integration of Europe" not only chronicles the history
of France, but also the histories of Italy, Germany, Belgium,
Holland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain, at a crucial moment in the
development of each. The first comparative study of Europe in the
Napoleonic era, it provides an in-depth look at an early exercise
in imperialism--in fact, the first attempt to create a single
Europe.
Domestic Strategies offers a new reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of laboring families toward the organization of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe. In contrast to many other works, the essays in Domestic Strategies place laboring families as the actors on the historical scene, rather than as passive recipients of historical changes. Conceptual insights derived from both anthropology (Sahlins and Geertz) and sociology (Bourdieu, Elias and Mary Douglas) are applied to individual case studies of social groups from north-central Italy and the French Alps, and the whole offers an important new perspective on the working lives of European families during the early modern period and beyond.
Research on historical processes such as commercialisation
traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement
of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the
passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social
sciences in recent years have stimulated a new reading of the
historical sources in terms of the social relations and strategies
of families in interpreting and adapting to their own use
institutional settings and economic resources. The essays presented
in this 1991 book explore the relationship between the historical
experiences of social relations and the demands and opportunities
offered by the economy in early modern Europe through a focus on
the strategies of labouring families. Critical discussion of the
historian's use of sources characterises the essays, which provide
case-studies of social groups in north-central Italy and the French
Alps. They relate to three specific themes: the exploitation of
non-agricultural resources in the countryside, urban guilds and
charitable provision.
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