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Europe’s Unlikely Champion

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Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism: From Dictatorship to Populism

The Hero’s Way: Walking With Garibaldi From Rome to Ravenna

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

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Italy’s Precarious Triumph Over Populism

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

Italy’s Dangerous Budget Showdown With Europe

How France and Italy’s Rivalry Is Hurting Libya

The Fall and Rise of Matteo Salvini

Italy's Revolt Against the EU

Italy's EU Retreat

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

After the Italian Referendum

A Friend in Need

Genoa, “La Superba”: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

What Rome Can Teach Us Today

Peace Be With Us

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

Story of My People

The Demise of Italy's Left

Pope Francis' Mass Appeal

Italy Did Not Just Send in The Clowns

New Year, New Italy?

Europe After the Crisis

Mario Monti and Italy's Generational Crisis

How Italy's Democracy Leads to Financial Crisis

Can Mario Monti Rescue Italy?

The End of Berlusconi and the Future of Italy

The Veiled Tyranny of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi

What Is Totalitarian Art?

The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy

A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of September 1943

The Italians in Europe

Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918-1940

Threats to Democracy: The Radical Right in Italy After the War

Postwar Politics in the G-7: Orders and Eras in Comparative Perspective

Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism

Italian Foreign Policy: The Statecraft of the Founders

The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi

The Italian Revolution: The End of Politics, Italian Style?

Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Moscow And The Global Left In The Gorbachev Era

A Second Italian Republic?

Stars, Stripes And Italian Tricolor: The United States And Italy, 1946-1989

American Labor And Postwar Italy, 1943-1953: A Study Of Cold War Politics

The Other Italy: Italian Resistance In World War II

West European Communism And American Foreign Policy

The Ghetto Of Venice

Democracy, Italian Style

The Italians and the Holocaust; Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story

Socialist Alternatives: The Italian Variant

Guns and Gray Matter: Terrorism in Italy

The Italian Crisis: A Communist Perspective

Communism and Democracy in Italy

The "Communist Question" in Italy

Italy's Malaise

On the Italian Crisis

The Mediterranean Crisis

Moscow and the Mediterranean

Italy: The Fragile State

Non-Crisis in Italy

Where the Italian Socialists Stand

Italy After One Hundred Years

Italian Democracy Faces Another Test

The Socialist Alternative in Italy

Democracy Lives in Italy

Touch-and-Go in Italy

Italian Democracy in Crisis

Party Rule in the Democratic State

Poverty and Population in the South

Favorable Omens in Italy

Italy, the Marshall Plan and the "Third Force"

Austria Holds on

Italy at Work: Achievements and Needs

Socialism and Communism in Italy

The Patriot Movement in Italy

The Italo-Jugoslav Frontier

The Future of the Italian Press

The Frontiers of Italy

The Economic Reconstruction of Italy

Italy and Her Neighbors After the War

Italy After Mussolini

The Italian Constitution Under Fascism

Machiavelli and Machiavellism

Italian Autarchy in Practice

The New Balance of Power in the Levant

Racism in Italy

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The Organization of Italy's East African Empire

Tribulations of Empire: the Mediterranean Problem

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