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Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance [PDF]

, 2012
We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes.
A. Alesina, A. Chanda, A. Gerschenkron, C. Tilly, D. Acemoglu, D. Acemoglu, D. Acemoglu, D. Acemoglu, D. Acemoglu, D. Acemoglu, D. Cantoni, D. Comin, D. Kang, D. North, D. Rodrik, E. Glaeser, E. Prescott, G. Brennan, G. Cox, J. B. De Long, J. Brewer, J. Cardoso, J. Diamond, J. Frankel, J. Herbst, J. Hines, J. Keegan, J. L. Rosenthal, J. Migdal, J. Mokyr, J. Mokyr, K. Klein Goldewijk, K. Scheve, K. Scheve, K. Wittfogel, L. Guiso, L. Magnusson, L. Ohanian, L. Putterman, M. Centeno, M. Clodfelter, M. Dincecco, M. Dincecco, M. Dincecco, M. Levi, M. Sarkees, Mark Dincecco, Mauricio Prado, N. Ferguson, N. Nunn, N. Nunn, O. Galor, O. Galor, O. Galor, P. Hoffman, P. Lindert, P. O’Brien, Q. Ashraf, R. Bates, R. Hall, R. La Porta, R. Wade, S. Engerman, S. Knack, T. Aidt, T. Besley, T. Besley, T. Besley, T. Besley, T. Conley, T. Persson, T. Persson, V. Bockstette   +72 more
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La tempête comme métaphore : les figurations de la catastrophe climatique pendant les guerres d’Italie

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2023
The difficulty of representing the conflict during the first part of the Italian wars (1494–1525) led artists working in the Peninsula to articulate their visual discourse around metaphor and allegory.
Jean-Marc Rivière
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The Eternal Return to the Sources of Modern Military Strategy: Rome and Its Battles [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului
Rome was and remains to this day, in terms of military history, the inspiration for the world's great strategists. Thus, the Kingship and the early period of the Republic include thirteen wars, the first part of the 4th century BC involves the Eternal ...
Florin Pintescu
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What is Othello’s Secret? [PDF]

, 2015
Explicitly written from the perspective of a second-generation British Cypriot, this article examines the relevance of Shakespeare’s Othello to the modern troubles of Cyprus.
Christofides, R.M.
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Castiglione à la cour de Charles Quint. La langue et les pratiques de la diplomatie italienne à la Renaissance

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2018
Castiglione spent the last years of his life as “nuntius apostolicus” (that is permanent ambassador of the pope) at the imperial court of Charles V in Spain, during the period just before and immediately after the Sack of Rome.
Raffaele Ruggiero
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Messer Antonio Giordani da Venafro (1459-1530), juriste et secrétaire à la cour de Pandolfo Petrucci, seigneur de Sienne

Laboratoire Italien, 2019
Judge, professor of civil law at the Studio of Siena, then of Naples, and special advisor to Pandolfo Petrucci, Antonio Giordani da Venafro is perhaps one of the most emblematic case studies to draw the first definition of the essential traits of the ...
Giorgio Bottini
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007
Set in the late-1840s, Wilkie Collins’s sensation novel The Woman in White uses the Italian War of Independence as more than a background. Instead, it becomes a renegotiation of both Britain’s involvement—diplomatic or cultural as well as on the ...
Tamara Wagner
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Per una storia del pensiero geografico in Italia (1900-1950)

Projets de Paysage, 2012
These paper focuses on defining a research project related to the history of Italian geography in the first half of the 20 century. Focusing especially on the period between the two World Wars, this study will fill the gap in current italian literature ...
Matteo Proto
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Dead and missing Slovenes in the Italian armed forces and as prisoners of war during the Second World War: questionnaires on sources, numbers, names

Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021
In the following contribution, the author analyses the sources and databases of dead and missing Slovenes who lost their lives as members of the Italian armed forces or as Italian soldiers of Slovene nationality as prisoners-ofwar during World War II and
Irena Uršič
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Secret origins of the state: the structural basis of raison d'état [PDF]

, 1992
The Italian city-state system occupies a special place in the canon of orthodox international relations. For, as Martin Wight says, ‘it was among the Italian powers that feudal relationships first disappeared and the efficient, self-sufficient secular ...
Adelson, Anderson, Braudel, Burn, Butterfield, Carr, Cipolla, Davis, Doyle, Finley, Frisby, Hay, Hobsbawm, Holgrefe, Holmes, Holsti's, Hopper, Justin Rosenberg, Keohane, Martines, Mattingly, Parry, Purnell, Ross, Sabine, Sayer, Sereni, Waley, Wolf, Wolf, Wood, Wright   +31 more
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