Screen LibraryThe failure of Italian nationhood The geopolitics of a troubled identity /
This book provides a political, economic, sociological, and cultural history of Italy that looks at its difficulties with the task of nation-building.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Italian and Italian American studies
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This book provides a political, economic, sociological, and cultural history of Italy that looks at its difficulties with the task of nation-building. "Silvio Berlusconi's Italy is heir to a long and convoluted history. Manlio Graziano navigates nimbly through this labyrinth and suggests why the country has again fallen easy victim to weak government and feeble institutions." - David Willey, BBC Rome Correspondent "This is a rich and erudite book. It makes an important and interdisciplinary contribution to the debate on 'the absence of an Italian nation' on which it builds and carries forward. Manlio Graziano has managed to weave a thick and rich cloth on which he has also set various shiny pearls." - Osvaldo Croci, Professor, Department of Political Science, Memorial University, Canada "A very informative and enlightening study about a country often discussed, rarely understood." - Sergio Romano, historian, columnist, and author of Vademecum di storia dell'Italia unita "Manlio Graziano lucidly diagnoses the problem of Italian national identity as both anomalous and inextricably rooted in its European context. His fluent and richly informed book has important implications for our broader understanding of nationhood in a globalized world." - Francis X. Rocca, Vatican Correspondent, Religion News Service "Here you learn how a failed State may last at least 150 years." - Lucio Caracciolo, Editor of Limes: Italian Review of Geopolitics and Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230104136, 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 274 p. |
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9780230104136 9780230113060 : 0230113060 : |
| CLC: | K546.5 |
| Contents: | How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness * The Phantom Nation * The Northern Question * 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 * Transformism * Internationalization Crises and Transformism * Emerging Sectors and Transformism * The Southern Question *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. |