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Football and Fascism: The National Game Under Mussolini

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This is a cultural history of Italian Fascism viewed through the lens of soccer. The 1930s were the zenith of achievement for Italian football--Italy hosted and won the 1934 World Cup and retained the trophy in 1938. At club level, Calcio was reorganized into a national league, after which the first Italian club teams emerged to dominate European competition. It was at this time that Mussolini's party institutionalized soccer as a fascist game. Italian Fascism fully exploited the opportunities football provided to shape public opinion, penetrate daily life, and reinforce conformity. By politicizing the game, Fascism also sought to enhance the regime's international prestige and inculcate nationalist values." Football and Fascism" is an original look at the appropriation of sport to serve political ends during a dark period of Italian history.

Painting--The Zenith of Colors: Master Wan Ko Yee's Art

Painting--The Zenith of Colors: Master Wan Ko Yee's Art
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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, ISBN 0141183047

Published for the first time 50 years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, ISBN 0141183047
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination by Barbara Taylor, ISBN 0521004179

In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become western feminism's leading icon, a stature that has obscured her actual historic significance. Examining in detail Wollstonecraft's writings, Barbara Taylor provides an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Her feminist principles are shown to have arisen within a revolutionary program for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Locating Wollstonecraft within her literary and political milieus, and tracing the relationship between her feminist radicalism and her troubled personal history, the book draws a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker. Barbara Taylor, a reader in History in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination by Barbara Taylor, ISBN 0521004179
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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and "Le Nouvel Observateur in 1978 when the protests against the shah of Iran reached their zenith. During this little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a series of articles on the revolution." Foucault and the Iranian Revolution is the first book-length analysis of these essays on Iran, the majority of which have never before appeared in English. These provocative writings, included here in their entirety as annotated translations, are essential for understanding the history and the future of the West's relationship with Iran and, more generally, to political Islam. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
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