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A History of Modern Italy

Author : Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199982578
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Italy written by Anthony L. Cardoza and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history, from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nineteenth century to the crises of the last two decades, has produced a paradoxical blend of hyper-modernity and traditionalism and thus made the country"different" in the broader context of Western Europe.The text explores how Italians have experienced seismic shifts in their social and economic landscape over the past two centuries, while simultaneously maintaining older cultural norms, social practices, and political methods. As a second objective, the book showcases a narrative of modern Italythat incorporates and blends the research findings and methodological insights of the new quantitative and cultural historical scholarship of the past two and a half decades. In doing so, it chronicles the regime changes that have taken the country from a Liberal monarchy through the Fascistdictatorship to a Democratic Republic while also delving into the simultaneous economic and social history of the nation through these periods.

Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present

Author : Martin Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866029
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present by : Martin Clark

Download or read book Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present written by Martin Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic textbook covers the social, economic and political history of Italy from unification in 1870 to the present time. This new edition brings students right up to date, with increased coverage of the the 1980's and 90's and a new section on the turbulent reign of Silvio Berlusconi. Other changes include updating the coverage of Liberal Italy and Fascism in the light of recent scholarship and changes in historiographical approach, additional material on Italian popular culture and a new chronology.

The Force of Destiny

Author : Christopher Duggan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618353675
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (536 download)

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Book Synopsis The Force of Destiny by : Christopher Duggan

Download or read book The Force of Destiny written by Christopher Duggan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English language book to cover the full scope of modern Italy, from its official birth to today, "The Force of Destiny" is a brilliant and comprehensive study and a frightening example of how easily nation-building and nationalism can slip toward authoritarianism and war.

Making Democracy Work

Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082074X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Democracy Work by : Robert D. Putnam

Download or read book Making Democracy Work written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic."—New York Times "Seminal, epochal, path-breaking . . . a Democracy in America for our times."—The Nation From the bestselling author of Bowling Alone, a landmark account of the secret of successful democracies Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970, when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and healthcare, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity. The result is a landmark book filled with crucial insights about how to make democracy work.

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

Author : Claudio Fogu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030598578
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Fishing Net and the Spider Web written by Claudio Fogu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.

A Brief History of Italy

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472140885
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Italy written by Jeremy Black and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience' Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military History Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain made consolidation of political control all the more difficult. This concise history covers, in very readable fashion, the formative events in Italy's past from the rise of Rome, through a unified country in thrall to fascism in the first half of the twentieth century right up to today. The birthplace of the Renaissance and the place where the Baroque was born, Italy has always been a hotbed of culture. Within modern Italy country there is fierce regional pride in the cultures and identities that mark out Tuscany, Rome, Sicily and Venice to name just a few of Italy's many famous regions. Jeremy Black draws on the diaries, memoirs and letters of historic travellers to Italy to gain insight into the passions of its people, first chronologically then regionally. In telling Italy's story, Black examines what it is that has given Italians such cultural clout - from food and drink, music and fashion, to art and architecture - and explores the causes and effects of political events, and the divisions that still exist today.

The Pursuit of Italy

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466801549
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Italy written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's Books of the Year A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in The Pursuit of Italy, an engaging, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance—and weakness—of Italy today. David Gilmour's wonderfully readable exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled by the great figures of the Italian past—from Cicero and Virgil to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. His wise account of the Risorgimento debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. Italy's strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of a unified nation.

A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950

Author : Sabina Donati
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804787336
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950 by : Sabina Donati

Download or read book A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950 written by Sabina Donati and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations. Using little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the policies, debates, and formal notions of Italian national citizenship with a view to grasping the multi-faceted, evolving, and often contested vision(s) of italianità. In her study, these disparate visions are brought into conversation with contemporary scholarship pertaining to alienhood, racial thinking, migration, expansionism, and gender. As the first English-language book on the modern history of Italian citizenship, this work highlights often-overlooked precedents, continuities, and discontinuities within and between liberal and fascist Italies. It invites the reader to compare the Italian experiences with other European ones, such as French, British, and German citizenship traditions.

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy

Author : Maya Corry
Publisher : Intersections
ISBN 13 : 9789004342569
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy written by Maya Corry and published by Intersections. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illuminates the vibrancy of religious beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it affirms the central place of the household to Catholic spirituality.

Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World

Author : Anna Procyk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487505086
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World written by Anna Procyk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe’s founder, Giuseppe Mazzini. Based on archival sources as well as well-documented publications in Eastern Europe, this study highlights that the national awakening among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician Ukrainians was not just cultural, as is typically assumed, but political as well. The documentary sources testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe, founded on the humanistic ideals promoted by Mazzini, was republican-democratic in nature and that the clandestine groups in Eastern Europe were cooperating with one another through underground channels. It was through this cooperation during the 1830s that the better-educated Poles and Ukrainians in the political underground tied to Young Europe became aware that the interests of their nations, bound together by the forces of history and political necessity, were best served when they worked closely together.

Italy in the Modern World

Author : Linda Reeder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 1350005177
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Modern World written by Linda Reeder and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including: * Comprehensive bibliographic essays covering each of the four parts * 23 images and 12 maps Italy in the Modern World also firmly places both the nation and its people in a wider global context through a distinctly transnational approach. It is essential reading for all students of modern Italian history.

Modern Italy

Author : Anna Cento Bull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198726511
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Modern Italy written by Anna Cento Bull and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction considers the history of Italy from the Risorgimento (the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861) to the present. It also discusses Italy's political system and style of government; economic modernisation; emigration, internal migration and immigration; and the modern Italian culture and lifestyle.

How Fascism Ruled Women

Author : Victoria de Grazia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520074572
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book How Fascism Ruled Women written by Victoria de Grazia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930

Author : Martin A. Ruehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298655
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930 by : Martin A. Ruehl

Download or read book The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930 written by Martin A. Ruehl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today.

Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy

Author : Catherine Kovesi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503580128
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy written by Catherine Kovesi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the complex interaction of the paradigms of luxury and greed which lie at the origins of modern consumption practices. In the Western world, the phenomenon of luxury and the ethical dilemmas it raised appeared, for the first time since antiquity, in early modern Italy. Here, luxury emerged as a core idea in the conceptualization of consumption. Simultaneously, greed - which manifested in new and unrestrained consumption practices - came under close ethical scrutiny. As the buying power of new classes gained pace, these paradigms evolved as they continued both to influence, and be influenced by, other emerging global cultures through the early modern period.00After defining luxury and greed in their historical contexts, the volume?s chapters elucidate new consumptive goods, from chocolate to official robes of state; they examine how ideas about, and objects of, luxury and greed were disseminated through print, diplomacy, and gift-giving; and they reveal how even the most elite of consumers could fake their luxury objects. A group of international scholars from a range of disciplines thereby provide a new appraisal and vision of luxury and the ethics of greed in early modern Italy.

The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy

Author : Monika Schmitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108934439
Total Pages : 943 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy written by Monika Schmitter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family in his adopted homeland. Far from emulating Venetian patricians, however, he set himself apart through the works he collected and the way he displayed them. In this book, Monika Schmitter imaginatively reconstructs Odoni's house – essentially a 'portrait' of Odoni through his surroundings and possessions. Schmitter's detailed analysis of Odoni's life and portrait reveals how sixteenth-century individuals drew on contemporary ideas about spirituality, history, and science to forge their own theories about the power of things and the agency of object. She shows how Lotto's painting served as a meta-commentary on the practice of collecting and on the ability of material things to transform the self.

The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019

Author : Umberto Gentiloni Silveri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031143647
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019 written by Umberto Gentiloni Silveri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a history of contemporary Italy from the collapse of Mussolini to the present, placing this major Euro-Mediterranean country in a wider geo-political perspective. It examines how Italian history and politics developed in relation to - and were shaped by - the international context, from the Cold War and NATO to the European integration process and the global challenges of 1989. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri highlights all major events, structural limits, contradictions and conflicts influencing Italian democracy and the political system until today. He explores the continuous tension between 'stabilization' and 'conflict', between the promise of an innovative and evolutionary representative democracy on the one hand and the constraints of a political system conditioned by structural limits and old contradictions on the other.