... Formigoni Roberto health services immigrants Lega Nord Northern League Il Popolo della Libertà The People of Freedom right wing politics secessionists Stiglitz Joseph United Kingdom Azienda Italia Company Italy employment first time social capital Western Europe artisanal labor systems...

... on a night train in Italy, who claims, in her autobiography, to have coined the term "Free Spirit" in her conversation with Nietzsche on this occasion, as a preferable alternative to "freethinker." D'Iorio then leads us through the textual genesis, in Nietzsche's writings, of the notion of the Free Spirit...

... Burckhardt Jacob Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Isle of Ischia Zarathustra character Christianity Förster Nietzsche Elisabeth née Elisabeth Nietzsche Röcken poet's laurels Elisabeth Förster Nietzsche Malwida von Meysenbug Southern Italy symbol fool's cap 1900 late Nietzsche In remembrance of his...

...South Philadelphia and Toronto's Little Italy are two Italian neighborhoods that offer intriguing sites for the consideration of urban community in the United States. At the close of World War II, both neighborhoods had grown out of the migration of millions of Italians to North American industrial...

...Housing markets help define the relationship between ethnicity and urban space. This is evident in South Philadelphia and Toronto's Little Italy, where ethnicity was shaped by real estate markets and housing exchanges were the product of ethnic relations. In Little Italy, immigrant families who...

...In the decades after World War II, thousands of Italians in Toronto's Little Italy and South Philadelphia trooped to churches every Sunday, with hundreds more coming throughout the week to attend various activities. The Catholic Church stood at the center of postwar social life in both...

... St Thomas Aquinas parish transportation and travel to work geographic distance traffic workplace distance between home and localism spatial dynamics ethnicity Italians Toronto Little Italy South Philadelphia construction industry social relations work social life labor markets Vince P...

..., and stage machinery. The undertaking—the first of its kind in Italy and potentially in Europe—created institutional and practical challenges whose political and aesthetic implications are lost if we examine the Wagnerian staging as a Bolognese event alone. Retracing the Bologna-Florence transfer nuances...

...The book Love and Death in Renaissance Italy presents short stories that try to evoke the sixteenth-century Italian play of life. As historian, the author is especially drawn to moments where the fields of play meet in dramatic, crazy, ironic ways. Choice, and that semifreedom-amid...

...This chapter focuses on Meyerbeer' contribution to French operas. It also explores the “theatrical interchange” between Italy and France in the nineteenth century, in which Italy exported singers and musical style, and imported the dramatic repertoire. Berlioz Hector Donizetti Gaetano Halévy...

...This chapter examines how Italian women create and are created by their family food worlds. It discusses divisions of labor created by the family food worlds of Italy. The discussion of labor sees food preparation as one part of domestic labor, monopolized by women even as they have entered...

... tomato canned in early industrial Italy social class characteristics of our sample pasta availability of high quality pasta in United States prosciutto craft of slicing parmigiano contribution to regional identification Sunday dinner declining importance agriculture as basis of Italian emigration...

...A need exists for a thorough reassessment of the revolutionary instrumental repertoire of early 17^th-century Italy. Rather than considering instrumental music on its own or in relation only to vocal music, this chapter argues for engagement with recent work on artisanship and technology...

...An after-party for Pitti Uomo sets the scene for “Value.” The chapter tells the story of the resilience of the Made in Italy brand. It argues that the brand’s relatively stable value in the face of a globalized fashion industry stems from other-than-capitalist symbols, values, and histories...

...Table 11.1 Levels of output and input per capita and total factor productivity Year United States Canada United Kingdom France Germany Italy Japan Output per capita 1980 63.9 67.6 45.0 45.9 49.3 45.9 43.6 1989 79.7...

... an impact on transnational ties. Focusing on several countries of emigration of the 19th century – France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and Hungary – this chapter shows how their policies could affect the possibilities of mobility. Attitudes ranged – from country to country and within one country over...

... developments took place in other parts of the Catholic world, and that developments in Italy shaped changes in rites and liturgies in other countries. Catholic Church's regulation of exorcism Catholic Church's views of possession exorcists Kieckhefer Richard lay exorcists superstitious practices Council...

... at the Berlin conference for helpful comments and suggestions. This chapter examines pension reform in Italy. It presents the main policy options under consideration and examines the issue of funding. It argues that despite the reversal of pension policy in 1992, in terms of expenditure control...

...The introduction looks at Moroccan migration in Italy and particularly in Umbria. It examines how migrant Moroccan men respond and reposition themselves in reference to the formation of twenty-first-century Europe, through a construct of the rural (l-ʿarubiya) whose resonances continue...

... with the issue of “discourse” and its various sources, and including the relationship between reality and representation, the focus on Italy, the inclusion of psychoanalytic perspectives and Deleuze’s philosophy of repetition, a dialogic approach to historical inquiry, and the question of modernity. Gossett...