A terrorist... to be or not to be? In point of fact, being designated a 'terrorist' depends on the political climate. If one commits acts of violence in the name of some statehood, one is the law; but if one acts violently, in the name of an ideal but against some statehood, one is a terrorist....

The paper examines the historical evolution of the clearing agreement between UK and Italy in the thirties and explains why a too timid action by the UK throw Italy in the arms of Germany: Germany was the anly supplier of coal on which Italy could count.

The paper deals with the problem of the critical appraisal of the economic theory of fascist corporatism and of the place such doctrine should be allowed in the history of Italian economic thought. The ideological, political and economic beliefs of the various tendencies of corporatism are...

Adolf Hitler's seizure of power was one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century. Yet, our understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion played an important role in the Nazi party's electoral...

This paper presents new estimates of value and quantity indices for Italian exter-nal trade in goods from 1922 to 1938, Trade in goods is defined so as to exclude transit trade and reparations but to include trade with the Itahan colornes and possessions. The quantity is defined as the net...

The aim of this article is to contribute a practical study model based on long term, deep, mainly historical studies about the Holocaust inAlbania. A similar model has already existed forthe eight years in Bucharest, Romania. Based on its advantages and the needs in Albania I built a new model....

This paper presents the first quantitative assessment of labour productivity dynamics in Italy's industrial sector between 1911 and 1951 and explores their links with changes in competition policy. It relies on a newly compiled dataset and provides fresh labour productivity estimates,...

В статье рассматриваются истоки Второй мировой войны, проблемы союзнических обязательств участвующих в ней сторон и в частности причины неурегулированности...