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This book explores the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication, focusing on narrative as its distinctive dimension. Within a framework of continuity with both the communication of our hominin predecessors and that of non-human animals, the book is about a twofold proposal. It includes the idea that (human and animal) communication has an intrinsically persuasive nature along with the hypothesis that humans developed narrative forms of communication in order to enhance their persuasive abilities. In this view, narrative persuasion becomes the feature that distinguishes human communication from animal communication. The study of the transition from animal communication to language addresses both the selective pressures that led communication for persuasive purposes to take a narrative form and the cognitive architectures and expressive systems that enabled our ancestors to cope with the selective pressures of persuasive/narrative-based communication. Language evolution is interdisciplinary, even from the specific perspective of evolutionary pragmatics chosen here. Therefore, this book is intended for researchers working in fields such as cognitive sciences, philosophy, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and primatology. It also represents a valuable resource for advanced students in cognitive sciences, linguistics, and philosophy

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Archives and Acronyms -- Main Journal Collections -- Online Resources (Non-Exhaustive List) -- Note on Sources, Bibliography and Citations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Decolonial Imagination and Social Justice in Radical Risorgimento -- Print Sources -- 2 Risorgimento Historiography and Plural Notions of Freedom -- For Freedom and Against Domination: Anarchism and Republicanism -- On Historiography: The Numerous Uses of Risorgimento -- Print Sources -- 3 The Geographers' Connection, and the 'Right of Peoples' -- Carlo Cattaneo, and Active Geographies -- A Federalist, Anticolonial and Antiracist Geography -- More-Than-Geographical Connections -- Three Maps, and Three Different Ways to Invent Italy -- Print Sources -- 4 The Lombard Connection -- The 1848 Turn: Revolution! -- Exile Networking and Federalist Conscientisation -- Against the Organisation of a Kingdom (and of an Empire) -- Print Sources -- 5 The Tuscan Connection -- European Federalism Versus Monarchist Annexations -- A Federalist and 'Social' Journal in Florence -- A New Europe and an (Internal and External) Anti-colonialist Thought -- The 'Inversion of the Formula' Between Popular Garibaldianism and Libertarian Socialism -- Bakunin, and the International Brotherhood in Florence -- Print Sources -- 6 The Southern Connection -- From 1796 to 1849: The Art of Making Barricades (and Republics) -- Carlo Pisacane, the Antimilitarist Colonel -- What Pisacane Effectively Said -- The Thousand, and Some of Them -- Southern Question and Internal Colonialism -- International Workingmen's Risorgimento -- Print Sources -- 7 Heretic Connections, and the Other Garibaldians -- Republicans, Guerrillas and Subversives -- Angelo Umiltà and the United States of Europe -- Ghisleri, the Last of Risorgimento Geographers -- Print Sources.

This book deals with the creation of local innovation systems (LIS) in emerging countries. The authors analyze the role of the government, firms and research centers in the formation of LIS. Special attention is paid to the manner in which different leading actors implement their LIS development strategies. The book presents detailed case studies on different strategies used to implement LIS in Singapore, Dubai, Taiwan and Iran