An important strain in the literature on the rise of anthropological thought in the early-modern world identifies anthropological thought’s biggest insight as the ascription of unity to the human species via the encounter ...

The contemporary literature on the Renaissance invention of terrestrial globes is fixated on the images that globemakers drew, expending great energy in determining how “correct” they were. This essay, in contrast, understands ...

How can be possible the coexistence between economic growth and a productive semi-stagnation or between poverty reduction and the increasing of unemployment and emigration? Kerala is the living proof of surprising convergences. ...

The government of Ferdinand of Bourbon IV of Naples and I of the Two Sicilies, coincides with the second moment of the Neapolitan reformism that saw the efforts to apply the most outstanding ideas developed by Neapolitan ...

La revista católica Civiltà Cattolica, publicada en Roma desde 1850 hasta la fecha, por unos jesuitas periodistas, pero bajo control de la Curia romana, fue entre 1879 y 1937, en dos ocasiones, abierta y violentamente ...

Organized crime is considered here through a specific case: Sicily. After the World War Two, mafia emancipated from landed aristocracy (under which deployed his office of control and intimidation of rural workers) to project ...