The "Birth" of Italy

The "Birth" of ItalyScholarship has widely debated the question about the existence of an 'Italian identity' in the time of the Roman Republic, basing on the few sources available and on the outcomes of the Augustan and imperial age. In this sense, this debate has for a long time been conducted without sufficient imput from social sciences, and particularly from social geography, which has developed methodologies and models for the investigation of identities. This book

This critical edition presents the work of Benjamin Constant

and affect can be read across multiple scales

This imbalance is corrected in the present work: the first translation into English of Reinhold's major work of philosophy

häufig auch gleichgesetzt mit Fortschritt und Moderne

Der briefliche Austausch mit alten Freunden setzt sich fort

and ambivalence—Malik Gaines considers how performances of that era circulated a black political discourse capable of unsettling commonplace understandings of race

the problem of masturbation and its alleged consequences

and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure

but their contributions are no less compelling

Mahoney makes sense of the mixture of magnanimity and moderation that defines the statesman as thinker at his or her best

fat has been a dirty word

Graciela De Pierris