Italy Book Reviews Samples For Students

"The Prince" is one of the most important works of philosophy, which Machiavelli created in 1513. It was published only in 1532 - after the death of the author. Since it was written by Italian writer it is necessary to pay attention to what political situation in Italy in those days. Italy at that time was divided to few small states. In these states, have preserved the outward forms of the republican system, but in fact the city-states were ruled by representatives of a noble families.
Italy has become a kind of arena of wars, which was constantly attacked by ...

John Prevas, Hannibal Crosses the Alps: the Invasion of Italy and the Punic Wars, Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 2001 talks about when Hannibal had absconded his Spanish headquarters one spring day in 218 B.C. with his hundred thousand-man armed force, administrators, and elephants, Hannibal was initiating not just the main attacking of the Second Punic War but also one of the grand military journeys in antediluvian history. His masterful spread through rough terrain and fierce Celtic tribes certified his worth as a leader, but it was his remarkable passage through the Alps—still regarded as treacherous even by the today’ ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings on breeding pure ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or “blistering” conflict it was referred to as the cold war. Therefore the Cold ...

Middle East History: Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis

“Trickster Travels” was written by Natalie Davis, who is a historian of the early modern period. Her main interests are cultural history and social history. She has worked for the period ranging from 15th to 18th centuries, and focused on Europe (Princeton University, history.princeton.edu). She has taught history in many universities including the University of Toronto, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University.
Her book “Trickster Travels” was published in 2006, and with the publication of this book, she successfully managed to sustain her name as one of the most interesting historians of the early ...

Writing general histories of support is laden with difficulties. Supporters of arts of the human experience come in all shapes and sizes, and few overriding rules or examples appear to govern clients' intentions in subsidizing creative tasks. Subsequently, speculations and topical outlines unavoidably call forward exemptions that render wide explanations either improper or mistaken. Mary Hollingsworth, in Patronage in Renaissance Italy, bravely undertakes this very issue in her coherent study of artistic patronage amid the fifteenth century. Examining thought processes behind corporate and individual support in Ferrara, Florence, Venice, Mantua, Rome, Urbino, Milan, and Naples, Hollingsworth offers short clarifications ...

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Ginzburg's book is a prime example of a micro-history that deals with the life of a seemingly unknown, and mostly, forgotten individual in 16th Century Italy. In the book, Ginzburg talks about a character named Menocchio; a peasant with a life of obscurity, but one that was filled with quite amazing and capable ideas. Menocchio was a sort of a deviant, and he had little respect for the norms established by the Church. Of course, Menochhio's behavior had him get noticed by the Church, and the book discusses the events that unfolded then in detail, including his questioning by the Inquisition, and the his ...

This book is a history of the society of the Italian Renaissance in a period (about 1400–1550) in which peers guaranteed that workmanship and writing was 'reborn'. Incomprehensible as it may appear, the Renaissance development was a deliberate endeavor to go ahead by retreating – as it were, to break with medieval convention by taking after a more seasoned model, that of the old Greeks and Romans. Hundreds if not a huge number of studies have been given to this point. The most well-known of them remains The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) by the extraordinary Swiss history specialist Jacob Burckhardt. Composing ...

(An Application of the Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress)

Authors: William Seyfried & Rollins College

- Article Summary
The article ‘Employment Intensity of Economic Growth’ seeks to examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by the GDP, and employment levels, with the main focus being on the margin countries of Europe known as PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). It pertains to research done between 1999 and 2012 to study unemployment growth rates and GDP after the financial crisis proved that the peripheral countries were in a dire financial state.
The financial crunch immensely reduced the availability of financing, and hence ...

The European central bank establishes policy for all countries that use the euro. Among these countries, there is disparity in economic development and strength. The euro as an international currency is used in many transactions in many countries within the euro zone. Any economic decision made by the ECB and the countries that are at the core of the euro zone potentially affects the economies of Italy, Spain, Greece and Ireland.
Germany and France are strong economies in the euro zone and trades with relatively weak economies in the zone on a day-to-day basis. They largely control the euro and ...

A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

- Introduction
The book A Capitalism for the People is written by Luigi Zingales who is an American economist and currently based in University of Chicago as a professor of finance and entrepreneurship. Born in Italy, 1963, Zingales moved to United States in 1988 with an assertive passion that the economy of a country should not only benefit the big businesses rather it should be focused on the good of an overall market.
‘Capitalism for the People’ is a philosophical, moral, ethical and a monetary account of the current state of US economy. It articulates the author’s conviction that a country’ ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...