1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001719600403321

Titolo

Coleoptera Cerambycidae : catalogo topografico e sinonimico / a cura di Gianfranco Sama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna, : Calderini, 1988

ISBN

88-7019-280-6

Descrizione fisica

XXXVI, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

595.76

591.945

Locazione

FAGBC

DBV

Collocazione

60 591.945 FAUITA (026)

15 VI 1 (25/B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457029703321

Autore

Viroli Maurizio

Titolo

The liberty of servants [[electronic resource] ] : Berlusconi's Italy / / Maurizio Viroli ; translated by Antony Shugaar with a new preface by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-26747-0

9786613267474

1-4008-4027-9

Edizione

[With a New introduction by the author]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShugaarAntony

Disciplina

320.945

Soggetti

Political corruption - Italy

Social ethics - Italy

Political ethics - Italy

Liberty - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in Italian under the title: La liberta dei servi.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- The liberty of servants and the liberty of citizens -- The court system -- The signs of servitude -- The prerequisites of servitude -- The path to freedom.

Sommario/riassunto

Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the classical republican conception of liberty, Viroli shows that a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressed. This condition of unfreedom arises as a consequence of being subject to the arbitrary or enormous power of men like Berlusconi, who presides over Italy with his control of government and the media, immense wealth, and infamous lack of self-restraint. Challenging our most cherished notions about liberty, Viroli argues that even if a power like Berlusconi's has been established in the most



legitimate manner and people are not denied their basic rights, the mere existence of such power makes those subject to it unfree. Most Italians, following the lead of their elites, lack the minimal moral qualities of free people, such as respect for the Constitution, the willingness to obey laws, and the readiness to discharge civic duties. As Viroli demonstrates, they exhibit instead the characteristics of servility, including flattery, blind devotion to powerful men, an inclination to lie, obsession with appearances, imitation, buffoonery, acquiescence, and docility. Accompanying these traits is a marked arrogance that is apparent among not only politicians but also ordinary citizens.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779463703321

Titolo

Africans to Spanish America [[electronic resource] ] : expanding the diaspora / / edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Ben Vinson, III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2012

ISBN

0-252-09371-2

1-283-99452-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

New Black studies series

Classificazione

SOC056000HIS038000SOC002010

Altri autori (Persone)

BryantSherwin K

O'TooleRachel Sarah

VinsonBen, III.

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Black people - Latin America - History

Black people - Race identity - Latin America - History

Slavery - Latin America - History

Slavery and the church - Catholic Church

Slavery and the church - Latin America

African diaspora

Latin America History To 1830

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-262) and index.



Nota di contenuto

The Shape of a Diaspora : The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America / Leo Garofalo -- African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 / Frank "Trey" Proctor -- To Be Free and Lucumí : Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Between the Cross and the Sword : Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Finding Saints in an Alley : Afro-Mexicans in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Joan Cameron   Bristol -- The Religious Servants of Lima, 1600-1700 / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Whitening Revisited : Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints / Karen Y. Morrison -- Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba / Michele B. Reid --The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective : The Current Question of the Debate / Herbert S. Klein.

Sommario/riassunto

"Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Therefore, it is critically important to expand the lens of the Diaspora framework that has come to shape so much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas. Comprised of nine original essays, this volume is organized into three sections. Starting with voluntary and forced migrations across the Atlantic, Part I explores four distinct cases of identity construction that intersect with ongoing debates in African Diaspora scholarship regarding the models of continuity and creolization in the Americas. Part II interrogates how enslaved and free people employed their rights as Catholics to present themselves as civilized subjects, loyal Christians, and resisters to slavery. Part III asks how free people of color claimed categories of inclusion based on a identities of professional medical practitioners of "white" in transformative moments of the late colonial period"--