The failure of Italian nationhood:the geopolitics of a troubled identity

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Graziano Manlio, 1958-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Italian and Italian American studies,
Subjects:
Item Description: Italia senza nazione?
Carrier Form: x, 264 p.: ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780230104136 (alk. paper)
0230104134 (alk. paper)
Index Number: C955
CLC: C955.546
Call Number: C955.546/G785
Contents: Originally published in Italian as: Italia senza nazione? : Geopolitica di una identità difficile. Roma : Donzelli, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index.
Pt. 1. The original characteristics: How premature development became a factor of Backwardness ; The phantom nation ; The northern questions ; Inventing ancestors ; The unhappy consciousness of Italian development ; A culture without a nation ; The difficult Italianization of the Piedmont ; The difficult Piedmontization of Italy ; The moderate social bloc -- p.t. 2. The permanencies: Transformism ; Internationalization crises and transformism ; Emerging sectors and transformism ; The southern question -- pt. 3. Identity and sovereignty: A counter-reformist identity ; A civil "Guelph" religion ; The quest for a civil Italian religion ; A petit-Bourgeois fatherland ; A country of limited sovereignty ; Identity and development ; The failure of Democratic nationalization ; Italian metamorphoses ; Between Europe and the Mediterranean ; The internationalization crisis of the 1990s.