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Vittorio Orlando: Italy

RRP: Price: £12.99
Haus Price: £10.40
Friends of Haus: £9.75
Publication Date:
2010-04-01
ISBN:
9781905791798
Format:
Hardback
Territory:
World
Category:
History, Coming Soon, Makers of the Modern World
Pages:
208
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Professor Di Scala is a research professor of history and History Graduate Program Director at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on Italian and European politics and culture, serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals, and edits book series on Italian and Italian American Studies. He taught at the University of Kentucky and in 1970 began teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In 1983 he was named a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in Rome. His previous book Italy: From Revolution to Republic: 1700 to the Present was chosen as an alternate of the History Book Club and has gone into several editions.
