Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0198726511
- ISBN-13
- 9780198726517
- Series
- Modern Italy
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 140
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Anna Cento Bull
Description
This title 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.
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