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Resilience In Resistance: The Meloni Government's Influence On Roman Social Centers, Teodora Brnovic May 2024

Resilience In Resistance: The Meloni Government's Influence On Roman Social Centers, Teodora Brnovic

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The Emigrant's Experience: Max Corvo, Fascism And World War Ii, Taive E. Muenzberg, Molly L. Menounos Apr 2023

The Emigrant's Experience: Max Corvo, Fascism And World War Ii, Taive E. Muenzberg, Molly L. Menounos

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Biagio “Max” Corvo immigrated to the United States in 1929 at just ten years old with his mother and sister. As an anti-fascist activist, his father had previously fled Sicily to the United States. The Corvo family settled in Middletown, CT where there was a burgeoning community of other immigrants from their hometown of Melilli, Sicily. When the U.S. entered WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, many military age men volunteered or were drafted into the fight for their country. Relatively little attention has been hitherto paid to Italian Americans who contributed to the U.S. war effort …


Trust In Government During Crisis, Aníbal Gómez-Contreras Apr 2021

Trust In Government During Crisis, Aníbal Gómez-Contreras

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Pandemic Public Policy: Social Capital And Italy's Covid-19 Crisis, Matthew Conover Apr 2021

Pandemic Public Policy: Social Capital And Italy's Covid-19 Crisis, Matthew Conover

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Enduring City-States: The Struggle For Power And Security In The Mediterranean Sea, Zachary B. Topkis Apr 2015

Enduring City-States: The Struggle For Power And Security In The Mediterranean Sea, Zachary B. Topkis

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Framed In Death: The Historical Memory Of Galeazzo Ciano, Paige Y. Durgin Apr 2012

Framed In Death: The Historical Memory Of Galeazzo Ciano, Paige Y. Durgin

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My thesis examines the Italian Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano. Using his extensive diaries, which he kept from 1936 to 1942, as the basis of my research, I explore the political weaknesses and failures of fascist Italy that contributed to her collapse.

Mussolini maintained that Italy and Germany shared a common destiny united by the wrongdoings each suffered at the end of World War One. In reality, the Axis alliance was mired in competition and distrust. Although Ciano initially supported the partnership, after a series of events- Hitler’s dismissal of the 1938 Munich Pact, the signing of the Pact of Steel …