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Niamh Cullen
Piero Gobetti’s Turin
Modernity, Myth and Memory
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
XIV, 329 pp ., num . ill .
Italian Modernities . Vol . 12
Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon
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n his brief public career, Piero Gobetti
was one of the most outspoken and original
voices of early Italian antifascism . Before
his sudden death in 1926, he founded
and edited three periodicals, including the
fiercely antifascist La Rivoluzione Liberale
and the literary journal Il Baretti . While much
has been written about his antifascism and
his theories of ‘liberal revolution’, this book
considers him primarily as an ‘organiser of
culture’ and situates him both in the context
of his lived experience in Turin after the First
World War and in a wider European panorama
. Although politically marginal by 1918,
Turin was one of Italy’s most modern cities,
with its futuristic Fiat factories, vocal working
class and militant socialist intellectuals
such as Antonio Gramsci . The book explores
Gobetti’s encounters with Turin – both its
history and the modern, urban landscape of
Gobetti’s own day – as central to his thinking
. Historically and geographically, Turin
was also the Italian city closest to France and
northern Europe . If Gobetti’s immediate surroundings
inspired much of his thinking, his
sensibilities were – in true Piedmontese style
– more European than Italian, and his ultimate
impact far from only local . Finally, Gobetti’s
bitter disillusionment with liberal and
fascist Italy, as well as his refusal to fit any of
the conventional political labels, means that
his memory has remained contentious right
up to the present day . This groundbreaking
new study explores the roots of Gobetti’s
thinking, his impact on Italian culture and
his controversial legacy .
niAMH Cullen is a graduate of the School
of History and Archives, University College
Dublin, where she is an IRCHSS postdoctoral
research fellow . She specialises in modern
Italian social and cultural history and is currently
researching dress and social change
during the Italian ‘economic miracle’ .
Oreste Foppiani
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The Allies
and the Italian Social Republic
(1943-1945)
Anglo-American Relations with,
Perceptions of, and Judgments on
the RSI during the Italian Civil War
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 390 pp .
European University Studies . Series 3:
History and Allied Studies . Vol . 1078
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taly’s change of camp during World War
II marked a turning point in the lives of
all Italians, causing the «death of the fatherland»
and the collapse of a two-decade long,
dictatorial régime . Also, this switch triggered
a bloody civil war, which increasingly divided
an already fragmented country into two separate
territories: the Salò Republic (RSI), occupied
and controlled by the Germans, and
the Southern Kingdom, occupied and administered
by the Anglo-Americans .
This book is about the British and American
relations with, perceptions of, and judgements
on the RSI . The period examined runs
from September 1943 through April 1945 with
some incursions into the immediate postwar
period, when the Allied Control Commission
and, after the fall of 1944, the Allied Commission
and the Advisory Council for Italy,
were still functioning . During this time frame
Anglo-American troops were still occupying
Italian soil, and some republican fascists remained
in hiding, waiting to appear again
on the political scene as turncoats, diehard
fascists or «gladiators» . While the first part
of the monograph deals specifically with the
relations between the latter and the Allies,
the second deals with American and British
journalists and/or intellectuals who wrote
about or worked for the RSI . The last section
is dedicated to the different categories of
post-9/8 Prisoners of War .
Peter D . Griggs
Global Industry, Local Innovation:
The History of Cane Sugar
Production in Australia,
1820-1995
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
XXXVI, 928 pp ., num . ill ., tables and graphs
hb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0431-3
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ustralia is currently the second largest
exporter of raw sugar after Brazil, and
one of the world’s top five sugar exporters . This
book tells the story of how the Australian cane
sugar industry grew into a major global supplier
of sugar, how it became a significant innovator
in the technology associated with the
growing and harvesting of sugar cane as well
as the production and transport of sugar . It describes
the spread of sugar cane growing along
the north-eastern coast of Australia during the
late nineteenth century, and how subsequent
twentieth-century expansions were tightly
regulated in order to avoid overproduction . It
examines changes in agricultural techniques,
efforts to combat pests and diseases, breeding
new cane varieties and the significance of improvements
in the sugar milling and refining
processes . Special attention is also devoted to
documenting how sugar production changed
the landscape of north-eastern coastal Australia
. Topics considered include deforestation,
soil erosion, loss of wetlands associated with
drainage improvements, the introduction of
fauna to control insect pests affecting the crops
of sugar cane and mining the coral of the Great
Barrier Reef to produce agricultural lime . It is
the first comprehensive account of the history
of the Australian cane sugar industry .
Peter D. griggs is a historical geographer
with an interest in agriculture and environmental
history . Since 2000, he has been senior
lecturer in human geography at the Cairns
Campus of James Cook University, Queensland,
Australia . He has published extensively on the
Australian cane sugar industry .
Juraj Hocman
Slovakia from the Downfall of
Communism to its Accession into
the European Union, 1989-2004
The Re-Emergence of Political
Parties and Democratic Institutions
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