The new issue of ARO 2024/2 opens with a FORUM dedicated to the events of urban planning in Europe, the central theme of the volume edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, and Martin Pekár, European Planning History in the 20th Century: A Continent of Urban Planning (New York, 2023), reviewed by Marika Fior and Christoph Strupp.

Following this, numerous reviews of books ranging from early modern to contemporary history are presented, with the aim of examining topics such as the monetary circulation system, infanticide in pre-industrial Europe, welfare policies, and, regarding more recent periods, the history of the German Chamber of Commerce, the role of the mafia during the landing in Sicily, and the origins of the Italian right. These titles represent just some of the topics addressed in the reviews included in this issue.

The main novelty of this issue concerns the renewal of the editorial board, established in the summer of 2024. This new board, distinct from that of the Annals/Jahrbuch, is made up of permanent members of ISIG, post-doc researchers, doctoral students, as well as some scientific collaborators and visiting researchers from Italian and German universities, who are listed here.

In the current organization, the members of the editorial board actively participate in the various phases of preparation of the journal, which is configured as a virtual place of scientific exchange, in addition to representing a useful observatory for monitoring the developments of European historiography.

On this occasion, we would also like to remind you of the procedures adopted by our journal for the reviews: publishers, institutions, and authors can notify us of new publications. However, reviews are assigned solely by the editorial board, and we cannot accept reviews submitted spontaneously. If you are interested in writing book reviews for ARO in the future, please contact the editorial team (aro-isig@fbk.eu), indicating your research area or sector of interest.

We hope you will enjoy this issue!

Katia Occhi

Editorial March 2024

Dear readers, the first 2024 issue of «Annali.Reviews.Online» opens with the Forum “Religion and Social History in the Early Modern Period” dedicated to two important volumes, Sacre metamorfosi. Racconti di conversione tra Roma e il mondo in età moderna by Chiara Petrolini, Vincenzo Lavenia, and Sabina Pavone and Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews. Early Modern Conversion and Resistance by Emily Michelson. Read more...

Editorial September 2023

Dear readers, we are pleased to present to you the September edition of “Annali.Reviews.Online”, the last issue of 2023. It opens with an interesting Forum devoted to the book of Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, La natura del duce. Una storia ambientale del fascismo, reviewed in the Italian edition (published by Einaudi) by Simona Leoni Boscani (Bern) and in the English edition Mussolini’s Nature (published by MIT Press) by Anna Koch (London). Read more...

Editorial May 2023

The new issue of "ARO" (Annali Reviews Online) 2023/2 inaugurates a new season for the Italian-German Historical Institute at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, with the renewal of its governing bodies. Read more...

Editorial 2021

The journal «ARO» (Annali Reviews Online) was established in 2018 with the aim of promoting the dissemination of research and fostering the transnational dialogue between historical science specialists. Read more...


Editorial 2018

"Annali.Reviews.Online" (ARO) is a new electronic journal devoted entirely to book reviews in keeping with a trend that is becoming widespread in international scientific publishing. Read more...