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. . . . The Night in the Modern Era: Interpretations, Conflicts, and Changes . Edited by Sofia Miola (Università di Pavia) and Sara Zanotta (Università di Torino) The nighttime holds both symbolic and practical meanings, representing a space of negotiations, conflicts and changes in societies. It has its own rhythms and customs (Cabantous 2019). […]



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. . . . WARS, AMERICANISM, AND ANTI-AMERICANISM FROM THE 20TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT . Edited by Alice Ciulla (Università Roma Tre) and Federico Chiaricati (Università di Parma) Since its entry into World War I in 1917, the United States has played a pivotal international role across political, economic, cultural, and military arenas. This […]



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SUFFERED, EXERCISED, AND MANIPULATED RIGHTS

Women’s Experiences from the Napoleonic Era to the Belle Époque

Guest Editor Federica Re (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

Historiography has showed that in modern and contemporary Western societies women have been subjected to discriminatory legal systems designed by men (Gerhard 2016; Bartoloni 2021). From the French Revolution to the late 19th century, feminist and women’s groups aimed to change the established order and take part in the legislative process by protesting against , opposing, and cooperating with political and institutional actors. Their ultimate goal was to claim the equality of rights that had previously been denied to the female sex. If it is well known that the 19th century….



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Motore, ciak, storia!

edited by Antonino BLANDO (Università di Palermo), Mariangela PALMIERI (Università di Salerno)

Motore, ciak, storia! is a section of the journal “Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea”. The section publishes contributions investigating the relationship between history and audiovisual materials and archives.
On the one hand, over the last decades, historians have explored the enriching and complex dialogue between audiovisual media and historical reconstructions. On the other hand, the increase in broadcasts of historic events and the growing presence of historical debates and dissemination on television, press, and social media demonstrates both the interest for the subject, and a rising demand of historical information by the public at large. Movies and tv series, television programmes, YouTube channels, podcasts and video-lectures – disseminated also via social media, – have proposed a story-telling-based, and an…



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ClioLudica
edited by Stefano Caselli, Deborah Paci, Giorgio Uberti
AWESOME by Marie Kare (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

We can think of games as artifacts, texts, or processes that we take part in: history can therefore be narrativized, reinterpreted, transmitted through games but, most importantly, it can become through games a playground. For Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, what is learned through games is not merely a system of rules but the coexistence of roles, or rather models of behavior: it is precisely by providing a shift of perspectives that games allow us to step into different subjectivities, identifying with others. This may prove useful for educational …