Volume 1 Number 3 Summer 1996 Articles The rhetoric of reform revealed (or: If you bite the ballot it may bite back) Diego Gambetta and Steven Warner Science, gender and moral ascendancy in liberal Italy Alice Kelikian A neglected chapter in Italy's transition from Fascism to the Republic: the Kingdom of the South (1943-1944) Nicola Gallerano Perspectives and debates The Risiera di San Sabba: Fascism, anti-Fascism and Italian nationalism Glenda A. Sluga Women's history in Italy (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) Michela De Giorgio The hidden comparison: modern Italy in German perspectives Costanza D'Elia Book reviews Norberto Bobbio (1995) Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane Reviewed by H. Stuart Hughes Sandra Cavallo (1995) Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy. Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789 Reviewed by Geoffrey Symcox Paul R. Corner (1993) Contadini e industrializzazione: Società rurale e impresa in Italia dal 1840 al 1940 Reviewed by Michael Blim Giorgio Fiocca (1994) Storia della Confindustria 1900-1914. Reviewed by Alessandro Polsi Emilio Gentile (1995) Il culto del littorio: La sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista Reviewed by Mabel Berezin