The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy

History

Drake, Richard

Europe

Indiana University Press

What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for political or social ends. Drake argues that a combination of socioeconomic factors and the influence of intellectual elites led to a sanctioning of violence by revolutionary political groups in Italy between 1969 and 1988. Drake explores what motivated Italian terrorists on both the Left and the Right during some of the most violent decades in modern Italian history and how these terrorists perceived the modern world as something to be destroyed rather than reformed. In 1989, The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy received the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies. It was awarded for the best book that year on Italian history. The book is reissued now with a new introduction for the light it might shed on current terrorist challenges. The Italians had success in combating terrorism. We might learn something from their example. The section of the book dealing with the Italian "superfascist" philosopher, Julius Evola, holds special interest today. Drake's original work takes on new significance in the light of Evola's recent surge of popularity for members of America's alt-right movement.&nbsp;

Examines the reasons for widespread terrorsim in Italy, recounts the case of Aldo Moro, and discusses the arrest and trial of terrorists

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Indiana Univ. Pr

Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), the Republican senator from Wisconsin, is best known as a key architect of American Progressivism and as a fiery advocate for liberal politics in the domestic sphere. But "Fighting Bob" did not immediately come to a progressive stance on foreign affairs. In The Education of an Anti-Imperialist, Richard Drake follows La Follette's growth as a critic of America's wars and the policies that led to them. He began his political career with conventional Republican views of the era on foreign policy, avidly supporting the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. La Follette's critique of empire emerged in 1910, during the first year of the Mexican Revolution, as he began to perceive a Washington-Wall Street alliance in the United States' dealings with Mexico. La Follette subsequently became Congress's foremost critic of Woodrow Wilson, fiercely opposing United States involvement in World War I. Denounced in the American press as the most dangerous man in the country, he became hated and vilified by many but beloved and admired by others. La Follette believed that financial imperialism and its necessary instrument, militarism, caused modern wars. He contended they were twin evils that would have ruinous consequences for the United States and its citizens in the twentieth century and beyond.

The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion (Studies in American Thought and Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University of Wisconsin Press

Grays Anatomy for Students Internation

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

Elsevier Hs 010a

Churchill Livingstone Gray's Anatomy for Students and Paulsen: Sobotta, Atlas of Anatomy 16e Package

Travel

Churchill/Livingstone

Gray's Anatomy for Students 5e and Paulsen: Sobotta Atlas of Anatomy, Package, 17th ed., English/Latin - Value Pack

Waschke, Jens

Paulsen, Friedrich

Elsevier

For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curiously obscure in America. Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented a kaleidoscopic series of Italian images―the frenetic industrialism of the North, the miserable squalor of the country's backward areas to the South, fin de siècle Italian politics and literary life―all set in the framework of a drama admiringly characterized by Luigi Pirandellow as "grim and powerful." For some other Italians, A woman touched ar aw nerve, and many critics reacted to Aleramo with extreme hostility. However, whether one liked Aleramo's novel or not, the book was an iceberg in the mainstream of Italian literary life, impossible to get around without careful inspection. --From the introduction

A Woman

Literature & Fiction

ALERAMO, Sibilla

Delmar, Rosalind

Contemporary

University of California Press

In the 21st Century, two uneasy nations are at the brink of war. The Confederacy, having long given up slavery, shows the world how all men and women are brothers and sisters. In the embittered United States, however, men and women are joined only by the forces which dominate their lives - a hellish industrial state, controlling the population with the help of a Christian Fundamentalist television preacher, and the grim agents of the Industrial Protection Agency. But there is hope in the midst of chaos, an Underground Railroad taking workers from the North to the South. This is the story of one man's emotional and spiritual odyssey as he travels the danger-filled path to the Confederacy.

Freedom Run

iUniverse

As Northwest Arkansas entered the 21st Century, it found itself facing the same spiritual and political struggles that many other American cities faced. Here are the stories of people who were determined to make their communities better than they were. It is a book that tells the story of great triumphs, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Even in defeat, the men and women in these pages found spiritual solidarity. Ozark Mosaic is the perfect antidote for those who feel that people no longer are the masters of their own destinies.

Ozark Mosaic: Adventures in Arkansas Alternative Journalism, 1990-2002

Americas

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