Category - History
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Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Perfect for fans of La Cucina and Stanley Tucci’s Taste, a vivid and passionate celebration of Italian food that explores its rich history and ho...
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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a clas...
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The Stones Of Florence
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A journey through the glorious Italian city’s scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and T...
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The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A New York Times Notable BookIn this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the ...
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Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for di...
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The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace—Renaissance ItalyThe period between 1492—resonant for a number of reasons—and 1571,...
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The World Of Venice: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an e...
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Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Lucid, evocative, and richly detailed." —Jay Parini The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has n...
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of t...
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /One of The Economist's Books of the YearA provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present...
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…...
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Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome – from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning o...
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmo...
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The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The Eternal Table is the first concise cultural history of food in Rome from the pre-Romans to modern day. This historical narrative revisits the...
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The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $47.99 - Original price $47.99Original price $47.99$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Gir...
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The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$104.99$104.99 - $104.99Current price $104.99| /Through most of their history, Italians have identified more with their own locales than with what is now known as Italy. This comprehensive refe...
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Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America
PaperbackOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analy...
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /“An exotic and instructive tale, told with life, learning and just the right measure of laughter on every page. O’Donnell combines a historian’s ...
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Immigrant Secrets: The Search for My Grandparents
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This is a book about origin stories. More specifically, my father didn't have one. My father never mentioned his family. Never. The only thing my f...
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The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging In the winter of 1873, Niss...
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Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness-of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one ex...
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Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenom...
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atki...
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius...
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