This article explores the activity of foreign-born Jewish women in Liberal Italy and their role shaping secular civil society through pioneering work education, professions, philanthropy politics. As baronesses, radicals, revolutionaries, they did not belong to a single organization nor were active causes, but functioned as vectors for different “internationals” feminism, pacifism, socialism. T...

This important book traces "the manifold implications of Darwin's theories for the debate over war and peace" (p. 192) up to the end of the First World War. It is generally believed that Darwinism was used to legitimize conflict and aggression, within society as well as between societies, and the beneficent effects of war-as a form of the struggle for life-on the quality of the race. But the au...