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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh By John Elder
2006 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0813925762 | PDF | 2 MB
"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh's Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both. John Elder's poetic meditations on land and life demonstrate that only by searching beyond our familiar boundaries can we discover better ways of living back at home."―Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "This collaboration―between George Perkins Marsh and John Elder, between Vermont and Italy, between maple and olive―is one of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I've ever read. It will be a classic."―Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature"Elder's impassioned pilgrimage shows us how to delight in messy wilderness, to secure a curative habitation of the world, and, with Marsh, to lend ecological nous to our gravest task: knowing ourselves and respecting one another. Let the maple seeds and olive stones of Elder's visionary harvest restore to us a reflective and redemptory future."―from the foreword by David LowenthalThe pivotal figure in Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Marsh drew parallels between the despoiled Italian environment and his home landscape of Vermont, warning that the latter was vulnerable to ecological woes of a similar magnitude if not carefully maintained and protected. In short, his was a prescient voice for stewardship. Elder follows in Marsh's footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and at length fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Punctuated throughout with learned and genial considerations of the poetry of Wordsworth, Basho, Dante, and Frost, Elder's narrative takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings, and returns finally―as did Marsh's―to Vermont, where he measures traditional stewardship values against more aggressive conservation-oriented measures such as the expansion of wilderness areas. John Elder, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, is the author of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism

The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy by Maurizio Viroli, translated by Antony Shugaar
English | October 9, 2011 | ISBN: 0691151822 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.99 MB

Perry Willson, "Peasant Women and Politics in Facist Italy: The Massaie Rurali"
English | ISBN: 0415291712 | 2002 | 236 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Alexander Lee, "The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559 "
English | ISBN: 1032057556 | 2022 | 274 pages | PDF | 30 MB
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559.

Banking Crises in Italy: An Application and Evaluation of the European Framework
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031013433 | 354 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 22 MB
This book offers the first original study on banking crises management in Italy from 2014 to 2020 with a comprehensive overview of the resolution tools used. In Italy, the issue of banking crises is now the focus of attention, not only as a result of the cycle of crises that occurred in the years 2014-2020 but also because of the banking reform carried out in Europe with the directives on bank recovery and resolution and the implementation of the Single Resolution Mechanism and the Single Resolution Fund within the framework of the Banking Union. The Italian banking crises have been managed by applying the new European regulatory framework; in this sense they constitute a significant test to assess its effectiveness and coherence. This book, divided into two parts, makes an initial assessment of the crisis situations and the application of the new rules, and offers an initial evaluation of their functioning. In the first part, an in-depth examination is made of the various cases of crisis, following a methodology of classification by type of solution and instruments adopted. The second part is dedicated to lessons learned and open issues. In detail, the most sensitive issues of the current debate are addressed, relating to the improvement of the institutional set-up and the rules for crisis management, the harmonization of insolvency rules in Europe, the funding of resolution, public intervention and, finally, the role of deposit guarantee systems. An articulated and complex picture emerges with various areas for improvement and policy indications, offering a framework that will be of interest to scholars, researchers, professors, students and practitioners of banking and banking regulation.

Emanuele Sica, "Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera: Italy's Occupation of France "
English | ISBN: 0252039858 | 2016 | 312 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe.

Nicholas S.M. Matheou, "Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean "
English | ISBN: 1138091316 | 2021 | 400 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula's relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages.

John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy "
English | ISBN: 0674248090 | 2021 | 368 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.