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Chapter Unveiling a hidden subject: peasant agency in the Douro river basin (5th- 7th centuries)
(2024)
The peasantry formed the most numerous group in the vast course of history in its dialectical diversity and specificity. However, the peasants’ importance was not matched by an equal research effort from historians. Something ...
Chapter La cooperazione prima della cooperazione. Il movimento dei volontari per il Terzo mondo nei lunghi anni Sessanta
(2024)
This essay examines the Third World volunteer movement that developed within the Catholic world in the late 1950s and the following decade. Groups and associations selected applications from dozens of young people, trained ...
Architetture nel tempo
(2015)
Architetture nel tempo represents the awareness of the duration, permanence and authenticity of places along the centuries and in their continuous contemporaneity, entrusted to the preservation which passes on to the future, ...
Chapter L’Inghilterra: la scoperta di un secondo polo intellettuale
(2024)
The article explores the discovery of a ‘second intellectual pole’ for the writer Luigi Meneghello, identified in post-war England. Thanks to a British Council scholarship, Meneghello undergoes a profound intellectual and ...
Chapter ‘Esperienze d’azzardo’: un approccio etnografico allo studio del gambling
(2024)
The present ethnographic research study has combined observation of gambling practices in commercial venues hosting slot machines, with interviews involving over 100 interlocutors undergoing rehabilitation for gambling ...
Chapter La problematica declinazione solidaristica della tassazione degli extraprofitti: una riflessione sulle scelte normative di riparto dei carichi pubblici tra consociati
(2024)
The solidarity dimension of tax duty requires the legislator to make choices regarding the distribution of tax burdens in the society based on criteria of reasonableness and proportionality. From this point of view, the ...
Esperienze di gestione in una biblioteca accademica: la Biblioteca di scienze sociali dell'Ateneo fiorentino (2004-2015)
(2016)
The volume describes experiences of the first twelve years of the Social Sciences Library of the University of Florence in its new location. We talk about management contexts, organisational structures, analysis, projects, ...
Chapter Under the Shadow of a Central Place: Defining the Landscape with Fortified Places and Their Memory in the Written Sources of the Kingdom of León
(2024)
Castles usually appear in the Kingdom of León’s written sources during the medieval period. The 10th and 11th centuries show an increase in those mentions, including some that helped scribes describe the landscape and ...
Purines as Transmitter Molecules: Electrophysiological Studies on Purinergic Signalling in Different Cell Systems
(2008)
Purinergic nucleotides and nucleosides (ATP, ADP, AMP and adenosine) are essential intracellular metabolites involved in a number of cellular processes, from energy supply to protein phosphorylation. However, in the last ...
Chapter Michel Foucault e il lavoro. Tra assoggettamento e soggettivazione
(2024)
The article gives an overview of the use of the concept “work (travail)” made in Michel Foucault’s writings, drawing a comparison between Truth and Juridical Forms and Discipline and Punish, and The Use of Pleasure. To ...