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Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
$57.95 AUD
Category: History
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization, th ...Show more
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R.J.B. Bosworth
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
For almost all nations, the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire generation of men militarized by fighting, Italy gave b ...Show more
Whispering City - Modern Rome and Its Histories by R J B Bosworth
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as 'not a human dwelling place but a mental entity', in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment buildings in layers of brick, mortar, and memory. This book accepts Freud's challeng ...Show more
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