%0 Electronic Article %A Angelozzi, Giancarlo %D 2012 %T Genitori, figli, polizia a Bologna nell’età della Restaurazione %J Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O DOI 10.1473/stor414 %K Bologna Policy history of family 19th Century %X This paper highlights the action pursued by police in Bologna during the years of the Restoration in solving family critical situations, particularly between parents and children. In most cases those who sought the help of the police were fathers: mothers often were turning to the police as a substitute for parental authority that lacked; fathers almost always expressed anger, frustration, discomfort that showed a painful sense of inadequacy to fulfil their role. There are hundreds of events, often tragic which strongly confirm as in the years of the Restoration paternal authority, still felt as a social value and legal foundation, however, is challenged by new ideas propagated by the French revolution and romantic attitudes. The police was often asked by parents and relatives only to impart to children, grandchildren and brothers – started on a slippery slope – a "sharp admonition" that would startle them back on track. But often, in the '20s and early '30s, the explicit request was keeping them in «discolato», a place where would have been “mended and corrected”. In fact, most of the files contain the documents gathered by the police to decide or not to accept demands made by the families to lock up children in «discolato». %O http://www.storicamente.org/05_studi_ricerche/angelozzi.htm %O Univ. Bologna, Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, Antropologiche e Geografiche, P.zza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, I-40124, Italy, giancarlo.angellozzi@unibo.it %O Access Date %O Parents, Children, Police in Bologna during the Restoration %O Italian %0 Electronic Article %A Bartolucci, Guido %D 2012 %T Historian Engagé : Republicanism and oligarchy in Carlo Sigonio's Political Histories %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor428 %K Italy History Renaissance Bologna Carlo Sigonio %X The famous historian Carlo Sigonio taught at the University of Bologna between 1563 and 1584. During this period he published several works on the medieval history of the city and of Italy which included a stronger political interpretation than found in his previous works on Roman and Greek antiquity. His history of the Italian cities and states focused on the concept of republican libertas, and underlined the conflict between them and the temporal power of the Pope.While Bologna was subject to that temporal power, the city was rife with republican tensions, with the Bolognese magistracies’ coming into open conflict with the institution of the Church in Rome.This paper will examine Sigonio’s political thought in the context of the broader struggle between the Senate of Bologna and the State of the Church, and will explore the role played by the historian in supporting the republican side of the debate. %O http://www.storicamente.org/01_fonti/bartolucci_sigonio.htm %O Univ. Calabria, Dipartimento di Sociologia e di Scienza Politica, Via P. Bucci, Cubi 0 B e 1 B, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), I-87036, Italy, sigonio@hotmail.com %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Bruzzi, Silvia %D 2012 %T The Role of Muslim Mentors in Eritrea: Religion, Health and Politics %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor409 %K History of Eritrea Colonialism Islam Health %X The role of Islam and the participation of Muslim shaykhs, in both defining and implementing colonial policies in Eritrea, have roused less interest among scholars than Christian and missionary activities. This article sheds more light on the Islamic players and especially on the role of a holy family: the Mīrghanī. During the Colonial occupation of Eritrea this family adapted to the political and economic context imposed by the colonial rule. Our aim is to point out their activity not only as religious representatives, but also as medical mentors for local people. As a social and religious focal point, it is remarkable to see their growing interest, not only in endogenous and Islamic practices, but also in colonial medicine within the context of their charity work for the sick. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/bruzzi.htm %O Univ. Bologna, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Via Mariani 5, Ravenna, I-48121, Italy, silvia.bruzzi3@unibo.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Casanova, Cesarina %D 2012 %T Polizia e disordini nelle famiglie a Bologna nella prima metà del XIX secolo %J Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O DOI 10.1473/stor413 %K Bologna Policy History of Family 19th Century %X This paper concerns non-repressive police’s role in resolving the most of conflicts between the spouses in Bologna until the first half of Nineteenth century, when separations were frequent. The struggles especially concerned wives’ efforts to obtain alimony were frequent and concerned people from all walks of life. Police was called upon to settle disputes even by the Archbishop who would have been entitled to jurisdiction over matrimonial trials because police could make better efforts in threatening precetti to those who did not want to interrupt an adulterous relationship or continued to treat brutally his wife and children. Only if the precettati obligation to change their lifestyle was not respected, then the wife or the husband could be put behind bars. The almost conciliatory attitude of the police indulged expectations of a changing society in which the needs of individuals began to prevail over those of the group of relatives: Even unwed mothers tried to oppose the loss of illegitimacy children but in this cases people was still very jealous of "honor" and very often the police tore children from their mothers' arms. %O http://www.storicamente.org/05_studi_ricerche/casanova.htm %O Univ. Bologna, Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, Antropologiche e Geografiche, P.zza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, I-40124, Italy, cesarina.casanova@unibo.it %O Access Date %O Police and disorders in families in Bologna in the first half of the nineteenth century %O Italian %0 Electronic Article %A Cristofori, Silvia %D 2012 %T The Gift and the Theft: an Economic-Political Interpretation of Rwandan Missionary Diaries of White Fathers (1900-1910) %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor421 %K Rwanda Missionary Colonialism Transculturation %X This article proposes an economic/political interpretation of two missionary Diaries drafted in Rwanda in the first decade of the last century. The events recorded in these documents aid the reader in understanding how the missions were, in that period, centers of power that interacted with the local environment in a manner which was relatively independent of a colonial administration that was still weak. As a result, while the missionaries learned and incorporated certain Rwandan socio-political logics, they also introduced embryonic forms of capitalism. From this paper the reader can understand how, thogether with these elements of capitalism in the daily life of mission, a policy of ethnicization and feudalization of rwandan society started to take shape. A policy, with was to be fully realized twenty years later under Belgian colonial rule. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/cristofori.htm %O Istituto per le scienze religiose, Via San Vitale 114, Bologna, I-40125, Italy, silvia.cristofori@fscire.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A De Benedictis, Angela %D 2012 %T True and False Liberty. Instructions for a Sovereign Pope (1589) : Camillo Paleotti’s De Repubblica bononiensi %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor429 %K Italy History Renaissance Bologna Camillo Paleotti %X Is it possible to be a free citizen and the subject of a sovereign contemporaneously? In 1589, Camillo Paleotti, a Bolognese senator and the city's ambassador to Rome, sought to explain how in a treatise directed to Pope Sixtus V. Until his election, the pope had implemented a policy seeking to nullify Bologna’s libertas and the liberties exercised by its citizens in the governance of the res publica. Paleotti composed a brief manuscript treatise, De Repubblica, that is divided into two parts. The first treats the definition of the term res publica, the models of the ancient republics, and the problem of the best regime. The second considers Bologna’s status within the Papal State, as well as traditional Bolognese customs. My paper centers on the distinction between false and true libertas made by Paleotti in addressing the question of whether Bolognese libertas is compatible with subjection to the pope. %O http://www.storicamente.org/01_fonti/debenedictis_paleotti.htm %O Univ. Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, P.zza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, I-40124, Italy, angela.debenedictis@unibo.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Guaiana, Yuri %D 2012 %T Cinema e Risorgimento negli anni '50 e '60 : identità nazionale e ruoli di genere %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O DOI 10.1473/stor408 %K Italian Risorgimento Italian Cinema 1950-1960 Gender History %X The essay’s aim is to analyze the public use that the Italian cinema made of history trying to unveil the mechanism of memory and oblivion and the reasons behind them in crucial occasion: the celebrations for the centenary of Italian unity. The focus is obviously on the movies about the Risorgimento. Not only history, but also gender roles are at the basis of the patriotic discourse. Therefore the essay tries also to understand how they were represented in history movies. Four films are taken into account: La pattuglia sperduta (1952), Senso (1954), Viva l’Italia! (1961) and Il Gattopardo (1963). %O http://www.storicamente.org/04_comunicare/guaiana_cinema.htm %O Univ. Milano, Dipartimento di Storia della Società e delle Istituzioni, via Livorno 1, Milano, I-20122, Italy, yuri.guaiana@unimi.it %O Access Date %O Cinema and the Risorgimento in the 50s and 60s : national identity and gender roles. %O Italian %0 Electronic Article %A Mantovani, Alessandra %D 2012 %T History as civic vocation : Historiae Bononienses by Giovanni Garzoni %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor422 %K Italy History Renaissance Bologna Giovanni Garzoni %X In his Historiae Bononienses completed around 1494, Giovanni Garzoni recasted in a continuous narrative a number of earlier monographs on the history of Bologna spanning the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries. Bologna’s internal turmoil, which often erupted into civil war, was rooted in external wars involving in most circumstances the city’s legitimate overlords—the popes. This situation creates a perpetual conflict, which threatens or even curtails civic libertas. Garzoni’s Historia draws on models of both civic and court historiography, whose crucial assertion is that the ruling family guarantees the historical, cultural and political identity of the city. While he allows that Bologna's destiny is connected to the fortunes of the signorial family of the Bentivoglio, a leading role in the centuries-old fight for libertas was always played by populus Bononiensis, who adopted this as almost a civic vocation. %O http://www.storicamente.org/01_fonti/mantovani_garzoni.htm %O Univ. Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, 44100, Ferrara, Italy alessandra.mantovani@unife.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Pallaver, Karin %D 2012 %T Muslim communities, Long-distance Trade and Wage Labour along the central caravan road: Tanzania, 19th century %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor426 %K Tanzania Islam 19th century Muslim traders Long-distance trade %X This paper focuses on the areas of the interior of present-day Tanzania in the 19th century. The first sections are devoted to the analysis of the characteristics that can be considered as peculiar for the understanding of capitalism in the area: the development of trade and urban life, the emergence of a class of wage labourers and the influence of local political authorities on trade. A final section provides an overview of the available evidence on the earliest conversions to Islam in the interior, with special reference to the most important urban centres that developed along the central caravan road, connecting Bagamoyo, on the coast, to lakes Tanganyika and Victoria. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/pallaver_tanzania.htm %O Univ. Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, P.zza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, I-40124, Italy, karin.pallaver@unibo.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Rapini, Andrea %D 2012 %T I «cinque giganti» e la genesi del welfare state in Europa tra le due guerre %J Storicamente %O 1825-411X %K History of Welfare State William Beveridge Fascisms Warfare State %X The essay reconstructs the genesis of the welfare state during the early forties of the twentieth century. The welfare state is situated inside the European crisis caused by the Wall Street crash of 1929, by the fascisms and by the second world war. The essay focuses on the social policies of Fascism and Nazism, underlining their genetic connection with the war. The democracies decide to oppose the welfare state to warfare state of the fascisms to win not only the war, but, especially, to win the peace. %O Access Date %O The Five “Giant Evils" and the Genesis of the Welfare State in Europe between the Two World Wars %O Italian %0 Electronic Article %A Saggiomo, Valeria %D 2012 %T Islamic NGOs in Africa and their notion of development: The case of Somalia %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor422 %K Non Governmental Organisation Somalia Islam Development %X After briefly describing the origins of Islamic NGOs in Africa and the factors that boosted their growth during the last three decades, this chapter will discuss their notion of development and their understanding of basic development concepts such as the human rights and the needs’ approach. It will then review the strategic approaches used by Islamic NGOs to achieve development, using Somalia as a case study for confirming the nexus between migrations and the diffusion of Islamic NGOs in Africa, identified by Salih and Weiss, and for advancing the thesis that Islamic NGOs promote a private welfare system in developing countries. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/saggiomo.htm %O Centro Studi sull’Africa Contemporanea (CeSAC), Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Via Duomo 219, Napoli, I- 80134, Italy, valeria.saggiomo@virgilio.it %O Access Date %O English %0 Electronic Article %A Venturoli, Cinzia %D 2012 %T Il colpo di stato in Grecia e la Giunta dei Colonnelli. Nodi e interpretazioni storiografiche %J Storicamente %O Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor127 %K History of Greece 1967-1974 Coup d'etat in Greece Greek military junta %X Many recent events have awakened international interest towards Greek politics and Greek economy. Greek contemporary history is quite unknown to our country. This is the reason why we chose to consider a fundamental period of Greek history, which is the seven years dictatorship of the colonels. We analyzed some important issues through a survey on Italian and Greek studies that were published during the dictatorship period and the following years. This text shows the results of our research. %O http://www.storicamente.org/05_studi_ricerche/venturoli.htm %O CEDOST, Centro di Documentazione Storico Politica sullo Stragismo, Via S. Isaia 18, Bologna, I-40123, Italy, cinzia.venturoli@unibo.it %O Access Date %O The Coup d'Etat in Greece and the Greek Colonels' Junta : Focal Points and Historical Interpretations %O Italian %0 Electronic Article %A Vezzadini, Elena %D 2012 %T Islam and Capitalism: Considerations on the Construction of the Idea of a Western 'Modernity' %J Storicamente %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor125 %K Islam Capitalism Modernity Sociology of Islam %X This review essay aims at highlighting the continuity of the relation that has been established between Islam, capitalism and modernity (or the lack of it) from the time of Weber’s theses on Islam in Sociology of Religion to more recent works of social science thinkers such as Eisentstadt and Gellner. This exercise does not aim at being a refutation of Weber’s theses on the ground of social science arguments or historical analysis. Its scope is first of all to demonstrate the influence and the many reverberations of Weber’s theses into social sciences, and from there into history. Thinkers such as Gellner and Eisenstadt have had a great impact on the way historians have understood the modern Middle East, and dealt with concepts such as tradition, modernity and nationalism. It is helpful to establish the genealogy of the relation between an ‘un-modern’ Middle East and the founding fathers of social sciences, to show the power that this paradigm has had up to the present day. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/vezzadini.htm %O Univ. Bergen, Department of Archeology, History, Culture and Religion, Øysteinsgate 3, 5020, Bergen, Norway, elenavezz@gmail.com %O Access Date %O English %0 Journal Article %A Zizzola, Daria %D 2012 %T Health, Islam and Alternative Capitalism. Three possible Key Factors in Developing Somaliland %J Storicamente %V 8 %O Article %O Health, Islam and Alternative Capitalism. Three possible Key Factors in Developing Somaliland %O 1825-411X %O 10.1473/stor126 %K Somaliland Islam Alternative capitalism Health %X The main aim of this paper is to investigate the socio, political and economic dynamics that have occurred in Somaliland in the last decades. Even though this country is still unrecognized by the international community, Somaliland’s economy has undertaken an enduring growth, above all in the private entrepreneurial sector. The author argues that religion has had an important role in the Somali cultural and social identification. According to this assumption, the article analyzes the Islamic factor by showing how it has led to the creation of many alternative connections supported by mutual trust and religious solidarity among involved communities. These connections are somehow fulfilling the absence of political legitimacy while progressively substituting conventional routes of intra-national negotiation, like diplomacy. To confirm this tendency, specific arguments are drawn from Somaliland’s health sector. The health care system is considered a preferential index to evaluate the level of national development. Above all, the private non-profit sector gives some evidence of the Somali capacity of running competitive private businesses while multiplying simultaneously their resources and suppliers with a consequent increase in autonomy and efficiency. This successful compromise bears the fruits of Somali engagement and can be identified by their inexhaustible adaptability to adverse conditions and their ability to avoid, not deny, the rational rules imposed by external actors and their ostensible, insurmountable interests. %O http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/religion_capitalism_africa/zizzola.htm %O Univ. Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Via Serafini 3, Pisa, I-56126, Italy, daria.zizzola@for.unipi.it %O English