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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italian History book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italian History

Edited By Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, Andrea Mammone Copyright 2027
426 Pages
by Routledge

426 Pages
by Routledge
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This new volume edited by two significant scholars of Italian history and politics offers students and scholars a sweeping overview of the modern history of a country that has played a crucial role in the history of Europe over the past two centuries. A team of experts scrutinises the main political, cultural, and socio-economic features and the historical “turning points” of this still... Read more

Introduction
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri and Andrea Mammone

Part I
Risorgimento

1. Building a Nation
Arianna Arisi Rota

2. Mediterranean Belonging and National Identity
Claudio Fogu

3. Transnational Risorgimentos: Actors, Spaces, Narratives
Elena Bacchin

4. The Risorgimento at War: Revolution, Unification, and Nation in Contemporary Italy (1848–1871)
Carmine Pinto

5. Nation and Nationalism from the Risorgimento to the First World War
Donatello Aramini

Part II
Liberal Italy

6. The Twentieth Century
Elena Papadia

7. One Country, One Market? Economic Integration and Growth in Liberal Italy
Maria Stella Chiaruttini

8. Italy at War
Francesca Canale Cama

9. Liberal Italy: The International Framework
Gianluca Fiocco

Part III
Fascism

10. The Fascist Regime in Italy
Maddalena Carli

11. Fascist Colonialism
Emanuele Ertola

12. The Ideology of the Totalitarian State
Alessandra Tarquini

13. The Italian Resistance Between Liberation Struggle, Class Conflict, and Civil War
Tommaso Baris

14. Fascist Antisemitism
Valeria Galimi

Part IV
Post-1945

15. The Constituent Phase, 1946–1948
Paolo Acanfora

16. Italian Political Cultures from the Birth of the Republic to the First Phase of the Cold War (1943–1956)
Marco Di Maggio

17. New Republic, European Integration
Daniela Preda

18. From the Golden Age to the Stagflation Crisis: The Italian Economy Within the International Business Cycles
Stefano Palermo

19. From Crisis to Collapse: Italy 1968–1994
Giovanni Mario Ceci

20. Political Terrorism
Benedetta Tobagi

21. A Long and Unstable Transition Process: Women's Rights in the Italian Republic from the Second World War to the 1980s
Domenica La Banca

22. Italy and the End of the Cold War
Daniele Pasquinucci

Part V
New Italy

23. Italy and European Integration from the 1980s to the Present Day
Lorenzo Mechi

24. Economics and Politics in the Transformation of Italian Democracy Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Andrea Guiso

25. The Mediterranean and Immigration
Michele Colucci

26. The Political System Between Internal Dynamics and the International Context, 1973–1993
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri

27. Italy at the End of the Twentieth Century
Laura Ciglioni

Part VI
Issues

28. The New Master Narrative: The Memory of the Resistance and the “Good Italian”
Filippo Focardi

29. Racism
Silvana Patriarca

30. Catholic Italy: Church, State, and Nation
Guido Formigoni

31. The Military
Nicola Labanca

32. The Southern Question and Extraordinary Intervention Policy: Lines and Themes for Understanding North-South Dualism in Italian Nation-Building
Emanuele Bernardi

33. The Welfare State
Chiara Giorgi

34. Ecological Legacies: Italy’s Environmental History from Catastrophe to Responsibility
Chiara Maria Pulvirenti

35. Foreign Policy: Research Themes and Key Factors, from the Cold War to a Globalized World
Laura Fasanaro

36. Challenging the Risorgimento in Southern Italy
Andrea Mammone

Biography

Umberto Gentiloni Silveri is Full Professor in Contemporary History at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Andrea Mammone is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the Sapienza University of Rome.

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