1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452294403321

Titolo

African development report . 2005 Africa in the world economy, public sector management, economic and social statistics on Africa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-84408-6

0-19-151565-5

1-4294-6948-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

African development report ; ; 2005

Disciplina

338.5443096

338.96

Soggetti

Economic development - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Economic conditions 1960- Statistics

Africa Economic policy Statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published for the African Development Bank.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PART ONE: AFRICA IN THE WORLD ECONOMY; Chapter 1 The African Economy in 2004; Text Figures; Text Tables; BOXES; Chapter 2 Regional Economic Profiles; PART TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA; Chapter 3 The State and Economic Development in Africa: Theory, Policy and Practice; Chapter 4 Public Sector Reforms in Africa: Past, Present, Future; Chapter 5 Public Accountability and Political and Economic Governance; Chapter 6 Public Sector Reforms in Africa: The Role of the ADB; Bibliographical Note; PART THREE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STATISTICS ON AFRICA

Sommario/riassunto

The African Development Report 2005 is the seventeenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. - ;The African Development Report 2005 is the seventeenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy,



examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. The African Development Bank Group is a

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130464503321

Titolo

Le tre Corone ; : modelli e antimodelli della Commedia / / a cura di Michelangelo Picone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ravenna, : Longo, 2008

Altri autori (Persone)

PiconeMichelangelo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777792703321

Autore

Martines Lauro

Titolo

Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence / / Lauro Martines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-19-988430-7

1-280-84504-X

0-19-803949-2

1-4294-2032-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Disciplina

945/.5105092

B

Soggetti

Reformers - Italy - Florence

Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Church history

Florence (Italy) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; AN X-RAY OF FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; 1 Chorus; 2 Vile Bodies: 1472-1490; 3 The Friar Returns: 1490-1491; 4 The Wait: 1492-1494; 5 Fear and Loathing: November 1494; 6 Holy Liberty; 7 Stamping out Tyranny: 1494-1495; 8 God and Politics; 9 Angels and Enforcers: 1496-1498; 10 The Pope and the Friar: 1495-1497; 11 The Savonarolan Moment; 12 Wailers and Bigots; 13 Excommunication: May-June 1497; 14 Five Executions: August 1497; 15 Rome Closes In; 16 Foiled Fire; 17 The Siege of San Marco: April 1498; 18 Confessions of a Sinner; 19 Fire Again: Three Executions: May 1498; 20 The Conscience of a City; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola.     Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Girolamo Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century Florence. The Dominican friar has long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical