Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance?

by Roger Absalom

Overview

Since unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world's leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes. Dominated by political Catholicism, she has also been home to Fascism, the mafia, and the largest Communist movement outside the Eastern Bloc. Her politics are notoriously fissiparous - yet policy itself never changes. Until now. This timely, absorbing and richly illustrated account of the historical development of the Italian nation-state traces the main paradoxes of what ‘Italy' has been, and questions what'she may become.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138425323
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Series:	The Present and The Past
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The origins of modern Italy; the dream of reason and the dream of unity. 2. The making of Italy by diplomacy, politics and war. 3. The Historic compromises of the liberal state. 4. From liberal state to fascism. 5. The fascist movement and the seizure of power. 6. The fascist regime, 1926-1945. 7. Fascism and aggression, 1934-1945 8. 1943-1945 as the turning point of modern Italian history. 9. The consolidation of republican Italy. 10. Stable insanity and economic progress, 1953-1968. 11. 1068-1969 and ‘the years of the bullet'. 12. Italy in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Editorial Reviews

Detailed, scholarly discussion of the origins of modern Italy; diplomacy, politics, and war; the Liberal State; the transition to Fascism and the Fascist state; the turning point in modern Italian history; republican Italy; from "stable instability" to "the years of the bullet"; and Italy in the 1980s and 1990s. B&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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