Italy’s role in the Libyan-US clash caused by Muammar Gaddafi’s support for international terrorism in the mid-1980s is a controversial issue whose treatment by Italian historians and scholars has been made difficult by the lack of relevant and reliable sources. This paper, based on...

Classical historiography treats the years 1650-1700 as pivotal in the movement of the centre of international finance first to Amsterdam and then, at the beginning of the 18th century, to London. The Mediterranean Sea, as theorised by Fernanc Braudel's "world-economy" model, was relegated to a...