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A leading team of historians traces Italian material and cultural bonds of identity and solidarity beyond their common political narrative - from the Reformation through the hopes and frustrations of reform, renewal and restructuring of social and economic power to the eventual collapse of the Old Regime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539036774673,"sku":"GOR007108990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52480034832657,"sku":"NLS9780198700425","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0198700423.jpg?v=1751258635"},{"product_id":"early-modern-history-and-the-social-sciences-book-john-a-marino-9781931112062","title":"Early Modern History and the Social Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diplomatic history and the study of revolutions), psychology (law), religion, and area studies (China and the Americas).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Burke, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Elvin, Australian National University, Canberra\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntonio Manuel Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Kamen, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institució\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilà i Fontanals, Barcelona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn A. 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Its politics were decentralized and its neighborhoods diverse. Clergy, nobles, and commoners struggled to assert political and cultural power. Looking at these three groups, Marino unravels their complex interplay to show how such civic rituals as parades and festival days fostered a unified Neapolitan identity through the assimilation of Aragonese customs, Burgundian models, and Spanish governance. He discusses why the relationship between mythical and religious representations in ritual practices allowed Naples's inhabitants to identify themselves as citizens of an illustrious and powerful sovereignty and explains how this semblance of stability and harmony hid the city's political, cultural, and social fissures. In the process, Marino finds that being and becoming Neapolitan meant manipulating the city's rituals until their original content and meaning were lost. The consequent widening of divisions between rich and poor led Naples's vying castes to turn on one another as the Spanish monarchy weakened.  Rich in source material and tightly integrated, this nuanced, synthetic overview of the disciplining of ritual life in early modern Naples digs deep into the construction of Neapolitan identity. Scholars of early modern Italy and of Italian and European history in general will find much to ponder in Marino's keen insights and compelling arguments.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51885569048849,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51885569704209,"sku":"CIN0801897874VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780801897870.jpg?v=1754576322"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-john-a-marino.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}