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This paper aims to afford the issue of the role of energy in the early modern home and the relations between energy transition and social consumer behavior in Italy between the XIX and XX centuries. While the history of electric energy has been exploited by economic historians within the fields of studies on the industrial revolution, less attention was paid to the effects of energy transition on households and on their material culture. At the beginning the use of electricity in civil life was above all light, as...

The object of this paper is an historical-economic analysis of the European demographic dynamics in the XIX century, with particular reference to the Italian emigration to London and the birth of Little Italy. The analysis will focus on the first settlements and on the development of the first Italian community in London and highlights the different sort of skilled and unskilled workers within the economic and social environment, an aspect that arouses great interest in the scientific debate, due to the fear of a ...