Ranked #1
Barbara Spackman, "Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands" (Liverpool UP, 2017)
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Barbara Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in narratives by Italian... Read more
6 Jan 2020
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48mins
Ranked #2
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to the modern. In The ... Read more
31 Jul 2019
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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24 Oct 2019
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. The... Read more
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Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018" (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019)
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Robin Pickering-Iazzi’s Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 is the firs... Read more
14 Feb 2020
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Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century. The uses of this term have vari... Read more
19 Nov 2019
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Italy" (Robinson, 2019)
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Despite the Roman Empire's 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same... Read more
24 Sep 2019
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Mike Duncan, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" (PublicAffairs, 2017)
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The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city... Read more
19 Nov 2019
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Ranked #9
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient—and modern—people, early Christians made efforts to pres... Read more
19 Aug 2019
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Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an an... Read more
10 Jun 2019
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Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Elena Past’s recently published Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human (Indiana University Press, 2019) studies a complex o... Read more
4 Nov 2019
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Ranked #12
William Caferro, "Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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In 1349 the City-Republic of Florence had just endured a horrific epidemic of bubonic plague, that contagion that became... Read more
3 Jul 2019
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Ranked #13
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century: The Diverging Cases of China and Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Today I spoke with Francesco Grillo (co-authored with Raffaella Nanetti) about his latest book, Democracy and Growth in ... Read more
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Ranked #16
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Books, 2018)
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Stretching across the north of England, from coast to coast, are the 73-mile long remnants of a fortification built by t... Read more
24 May 2019
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Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambiti... Read more
31 Dec 2019
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The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
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Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE. Th... Read more
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