New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books
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modern history<br />
Sognando la rivoluzione<br />
La sinistra italiana e le origini del 68<br />
by Danilo Breschi<br />
Energia contesa, energia condivisa<br />
La Francia, il problema tedesco e la questione carbonifera nei due dopoguerra<br />
by Laura Fasanaro<br />
The competition over energy resources exacerbated controversies over territorial divisions<br />
within Europe in the first half of the 20th century. This work examines how France addressed<br />
its rivalry with Germany in the years following the two World Wars. Italian text.<br />
336p, paperback, 9788859605232, $38.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,<br />
Storia delle relazioni internazionali 12.<br />
Amaritudine<br />
Romanzo<br />
by Massimo Griffo<br />
Massimo Griffo’s award-winning novel<br />
reflects the at-times uncomfortable<br />
changes in Italian society over the last<br />
fifty years. Italian text.<br />
392p, paperback, 9788859603535,<br />
$25.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, July <strong>2009</strong>,<br />
Selezione Narrativa Polistampa 27.<br />
110<br />
Luigi Barzini<br />
Una vita da inviato<br />
by Enzo Magrì<br />
This books reconstructs the decade that led up to 1968,<br />
examining the topography of the Italian political left<br />
after 1956 when it became increasingly critical of leftwing<br />
parties and institutional unions. Italian text.<br />
272p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788856400236, $25.00(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Cronaca e storia /<br />
Biblioteca di ricerca 2.<br />
<strong>New</strong>ly distributed by DBBC!<br />
Luigi Barzini traveled the world as a correspondent for<br />
the Corriere della Sera, inventing his own journalistic<br />
style. Letters from around the world to his wife, the<br />
writer Mantica Pesavento, reflect their love for each other<br />
along with Barzini’s professional insecurities. Italian text.<br />
336p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788856400373, $29.50(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Passaparola /<br />
Comunicazione, giornalismo, mass-media 3.<br />
Uno sguardo americano<br />
su Aldo Moro<br />
Gli anni Settanta<br />
nell’Archivio Robert Katz<br />
A collection of articles examining the abduction<br />
and execution of the Italian political leader<br />
Aldo Moro by members of the Red Brigades in<br />
1978 using documents from the Robert Katz<br />
archives. Italian text.<br />
104p, paperback, 9788859603832, $16.50(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.<br />
Edizioni Polistampa<br />
La Toscana dai Lorena al fascismo<br />
Mezzo secolo di storiografia nel cinquantenario<br />
della Rassegna storica toscana<br />
edited by Fulvio Conti and Romano Paolo Coppini<br />
This collection of articles from a conference examines the period from<br />
1737 to 1925, looking at questions on the end of the Medici government,<br />
the Leopoldine reforms, the Napoleonic years, the Risorgimento<br />
and integration of the region in the new national context. Italian text.<br />
384p, paperback, 9788859605591, $46.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa,<br />
October <strong>2009</strong>, Società toscana per la storia del Risorgimento / Studi 1.<br />
La Toscana nell’Impero napoleonico<br />
L’imposizione del modello e il processo di integrazione<br />
(1807–1809)<br />
by Edgardo Donati<br />
This book sheds light for the first time on the failed attempt to impose<br />
on Tuscany a Napoleonic monarchical administration with a professional<br />
bureaucracy under the leadership of collaborating local elites. Italian text.<br />
2 vols, 972p, 32 col pls, paperback, 9788859602279, $75.00(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Nuove Ricerche di Storia 8.<br />
Un quotidiano della Resistenza –<br />
“La Nazione del Popolo”<br />
Organo del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale<br />
(11 agosto 1944 - 3 luglio 1946)<br />
by Pier Luigi Ballini<br />
This two-volume work presents an anthology of the articles that appeared<br />
in the Florentine newspaper “La Nazione del Popolo.” Italian text.<br />
2 vols, 760p, illus, paperback, 9788859604310, $69.50(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.<br />
Il socialismo fiorentino<br />
Dalla Liberazione alla crisi dei partiti (1944–1994)<br />
edited by Luigi Lotti<br />
This is the only work to examine the history of the Florentine Socialist<br />
Party from the liberation to the end of the 20th century. The book demonstrates<br />
that the Florentine Socialist Party, with its merits, difficulties<br />
and errors, often anticipated or accentuated the principal moments in<br />
the dramatic history of Italian socialism. Italian text.<br />
204p, col & b/w illus, paperback, 9788859603436, $26.50(s),<br />
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.<br />
The David Brown Book Company – <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2009</strong>