The failure of Italian nationhood:the geopolitics of a troubled identity
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Italian and Italian American studies, |
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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. |