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The natural border : bounding migrant farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
\"The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Natural Border
The Natural Border tells the
recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the
perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers.
Timothy Raeymaekers shows how in the context of global supply
chains and repressive border regimes, agrarian production and
reproduction are based on fundamental racial hierarchies.
Taking the example of the tomato-a typical 'Made in Italy'
commodity-Raeymaekers asks how political boundaries are drawn
around the land and the labor needed for its production, what
technologies of exclusion and inclusion enable capitalist
operations to take place in the Mediterranean agrarian frontier,
and which practices structure the allocation, use and
commodification of land and labor across the tomato chain. While
the mobile infrastructures that mobilize, channel, commodify and
segregate labor play a central role in the 'naturalization' of
racial segregation, they are also terrains of contestation and
power-and thus, as The Natural Border demonstrates,
reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean
border space is going through today.
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Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance
Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance is the first comprehensive book in English to examine the works of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno. It introduces these writers, their lives, works, sources, language choices, narrative communities and strategies, and their styles and forms. Ronald G. Musto brings to bear current methodological and theoretical frameworks to develop this analysis. Central to his examination are the role of trecento visual language and the impact of fictional forms on this historiography. He traces the fine line between historia and fabula and the ability of trecento writers to absorb and utilize the symbolic forms deployed by such artists as Giotto, Lorenzetti and Francesco da Barberino and such romances as Meliadus, the Contesse d’Anjou and Constance. To illustrate and test these analyses, Musto offers case studies examining rituals of punishment and prison dialogues. He traces the development of a grand narrative — the black legend of the Angevins — through Petrarch, Villani, Boccaccio and Gravina. A final chapter compares trecento historiography to that of the southern humanists.
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Before the Normans
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.
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Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy
\"Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Right-Angle Pattern of Minor Fluvial Networks from the Ionian Terraced Belt, Southern Italy: Passive Structural Control or Foreland Bending?
Morphometric analyses of both the topography and drainage network have been carried out in a large sector of the Ionian coastal belt of southern Italy in order to unravel the possible control of Late Quaternary thrust front activity on the evolution of the fluvial net. The study area extends in the southernmost sector of the Bradano Foredeep and is featured by several orders of uplifted marine terraces, ranging in age from Middle Pleistocene to Late Quaternary. The flight of the marine terraces is deeply cut by a trellis-type and regularly spaced minor fluvial network. Morphotectonic investigations based on field survey, photo-aerial interpretation, topographic attributes, morphometric indices, and analysis of longitudinal river profiles suggest a strong control on the drainage network arrangement by a pervasive orthogonal fracture system, produced and preserved into the brittle caprock of the terraces, made by conglomerate. Since a similar pervasive and orthogonal fracture pattern is typically generated by gentle folding of rocks, the development of the Ionian hydrographic networks could be attributed to a general—maybe still active—bending of the foredeep area due to the eastward propagation of blind thrusting of the Apennines orogenic chain.
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