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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>

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