There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the historical and cultural boundaries of stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation. Contributors offer a continuous series of cultural encounters and experiences in television, literature, and film that deserve the attention of anyone interested in the larger themes of American history.

This volume gathers together seventeen original essays that represent the new directions being taken by historians of the Florentine Renaissance. Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These essays offer new and exemplary approaches toward state-building, political vocabulary, political economy, civic humanism, local history and social patronage. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relationships of family, neighborhood, guild, patronage, and religion that, from a twenty-first-century perspective, greatly limited the scope of individual thought and action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The subjects of the 17 essays in this volume include the definition of humanism, the Renaissance conception of modernity, the significance and uses of Renaissance rhetoric, the relation of painting to the liberal arts, the writing of history in the Renaissance, the role of music in the development of experimental science, the narrative practices of medical case-histories, and the development of a new Renaissance language of statecraft...read more

Product Description: The "Journal of the History of Ideas" has, over the years, published many articles on the Renaissance; this selection aims to provide a significant index of American scholarship in the field during the first 25 years of the journal's publication...read more