A concise history of Italy

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Title:

Author:

Duggan, Christopher.

ISBN:

9780521408486

Personal Author:

Duggan, Christopher.

Edition:

[Updated ed.]

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xiv, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Series:

Cambridge concise histories

Series Title:

Cambridge concise histories

General Note:

Edition statement from cover.

First published in 1994.

Contents:

The geographical determinants of disunity -- Disunity and conflict : from the Romans to the Renaissance, 400-1494 -- Stagnation and reform, 1494-1789 -- The emergence of the national question, 1789-1849-- Italy united -- The liberal state and the social question, 1870-1900 -- Giolitti, The first World War, and the rise of Fascism -- Fascism -- The Republic.

Geographic Term:

Italy -- History.

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Summary

Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history, which covers the period from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day, looks in particular at the difficulties Italy has faced during the last two centuries in forging a nation state. The opening chapters consider the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and survey the long centuries of political fragmentation in the peninsula since the sixth century. It was this legacy of fragmentation which Italy's new rulers had to strive to overcome when the country became united, more by accident than design, in 1859-61. The book aims to weave together political, economic, social and cultural history, and stresses in particular the alternation between materialist and idealist programmes for forging a nation state.