%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