Michele Monserrati
Biographic Data
| ID | 5767246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Monserrati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Monserrati |
| SIGNATURE | MONSERRATI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Victorian taste of Italy
The article focuses on Andrea Sbarboro's (1839–1923) Italian-Swiss Colony of Asti in Sonoma County and the success of his winemaking company created in 1881. By exploring the relationship between the symbolic space of the vineyard (which I refer to as a ‘winescape’) and the predominant racial narratives of the time in California, I argue that Sbarboro created an Italian space in which Italian Americans could be recognized as ‘white.’ Sbarboro's r…
Trees in Literatures and the Arts
Reviewed by: Trees in Literatures and the Arts: HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene ed. by Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione Michele Monserrati (bio) Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione, editors. Trees in Literatures and the Arts: HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Lexington Books, 2021. 297 pages. The growing field of Plants Studies seeks to add one more dimension to the ever-expanding horizon of post-human theory: a …
The Barren Mediterranean
The article considers the development of Italy’s Mediterranean identity from the country’s Unification to the Turco-Italian War (1911-1912). I show how Italy’s political ambition to restore Roman control over the Mediterranean Sea ( Mare Nostrum ) generated two alternative representations of the Roman myth: a sea-based and a land-based one. After the initial success of the maritime version of this myth, I argue that the years leading up to the wa…
Fascist Samurais
Between 1938 and 1943, Fascist intellectuals debated the problem of how to create a racial policy that would encompass the Japanese within the Aryan doctrine. This article demonstrates how internal divisions in the Fascist party over racial issues generated alternative versions of pro-Japanese propaganda, which influenced the racial thinking of the Italian far-right even long after the Second World War. I show how Italian racial theories develope…
The Atomic Fear
This article focuses on the topic of the nuclear fear and its ideological use in Italy during the period of the Cold War (1950s–1980s). I argue that the debate on nuclear weapons in Italy played an important role especially among intellectuals affiliated with the Italian Communist Party, in a delicate historical moment between the crisis of traditional Marxist Communism and the rising of the New Left. By contextualizing the subject of the nuclear…
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The Atomic Fear
This article focuses on the topic of the nuclear fear and its ideological use in Italy during the period of the Cold War (1950s–1980s). I argue that the debate on nuclear weapons in Italy played an important role especially among intellectuals affiliated with the Italian Communist Party, in a delicate historical moment between the crisis of traditional Marxist Communism and the rising of the New Left. By contextualizing the subject of the nuclear…
The Barren Mediterranean
The article considers the development of Italy’s Mediterranean identity from the country’s Unification to the Turco-Italian War (1911-1912). I show how Italy’s political ambition to restore Roman control over the Mediterranean Sea ( Mare Nostrum ) generated two alternative representations of the Roman myth: a sea-based and a land-based one. After the initial success of the maritime version of this myth, I argue that the years leading up to the wa…
Fascist Samurais
Between 1938 and 1943, Fascist intellectuals debated the problem of how to create a racial policy that would encompass the Japanese within the Aryan doctrine. This article demonstrates how internal divisions in the Fascist party over racial issues generated alternative versions of pro-Japanese propaganda, which influenced the racial thinking of the Italian far-right even long after the Second World War. I show how Italian racial theories develope…
Trees in Literatures and the Arts
Reviewed by: Trees in Literatures and the Arts: HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene ed. by Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione Michele Monserrati (bio) Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione, editors. Trees in Literatures and the Arts: HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Lexington Books, 2021. 297 pages. The growing field of Plants Studies seeks to add one more dimension to the ever-expanding horizon of post-human theory: a …
A Victorian taste of Italy
The article focuses on Andrea Sbarboro's (1839–1923) Italian-Swiss Colony of Asti in Sonoma County and the success of his winemaking company created in 1881. By exploring the relationship between the symbolic space of the vineyard (which I refer to as a ‘winescape’) and the predominant racial narratives of the time in California, I argue that Sbarboro created an Italian space in which Italian Americans could be recognized as ‘white.’ Sbarboro's r…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)