Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? - Couverture rigide

Absalom, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0582027721 ISBN 13 : 9780582027725

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1995

Synopsis

This text presents a view of the way in which Italy's past has had a bearing on the present. It explores the nature and implications of its inhabitants' success in coping with the contradictions of the country's political and economic situation and its social structure. The book attempts to explain how this success is related to the making and repeated remaking of the Italian nation-state and, through the major episodes of the crisis since Bonaparte's conquests began the process whereby the idea of a united Italy became a political reality, of Italian society itself.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582027721
• ISBN 13: 9780582027725
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie