A History of Modern Italy: Transformation and Continuity, 1796 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0199982570
- ISBN-13
- 9780199982578
- Category
- Italy
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Anthony L. Cardoza
Description
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.
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