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How to Hide an Empire : A Short History of the Greater United States L’impero nascosto. Breve storia dei grandi Stati Uniti d’America

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:10:23 +0000

The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side.

Nothing could be further from the truth. This is the story of the United States outside the United States – from nineteenth-century conquests like Alaska and Puerto Rico to the catalogue of islands, archipelagos and military bases dotted around the globe. Full of surprises and previously forgotten episodes, this fascinating book casts America’s history, and its present, in a revealing new light.

Gli Stati Uniti negano di avere sogni di impero. Sappiamo che l’America ha diffuso la sua moneta, la sua lingua e la sua cultura in tutto il mondo, ma continuiamo a considerarla un territorio circoscritto, delimitato dal Canada in alto, dal Messico in basso e dagli oceani su entrambi i lati.

Niente potrebbe essere più lontano dalla verità. Questa è la storia degli Stati Uniti al di fuori degli Stati Uniti: dalle conquiste del XIX secolo come l’Alaska e Porto Rico all’elenco di isole, arcipelaghi e basi militari sparse in tutto il mondo. Ricco di sorprese ed episodi precedentemente dimenticati, questo affascinante libro getta una nuova luce rivelatrice sulla storia americana e sul suo presente.

Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:44:47 +0000

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century.

Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics. Distributed for the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Renegades. Born in the USA

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 06:09:50 +0000

Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material. Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders-one Black and one white-looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself.

It includes:* Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen* Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions* Obama’s never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his “Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches* Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career* Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors’ personal archives* Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation. In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favourite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more.

Along the way, they reveal their passion for-and the occasional toll of-telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how their fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity.

Girl A

Arnaldo Ageno — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:54:03 +0000

If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped.

When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her six siblings – and with the childhood they shared.

Beautifully written and incredibly powerful, Girl A is a story of redemption, of horror, and of love.