Linda Reeder

Italy in the Modern World (eBook, ePUB)

Society, Culture and Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world.

Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including:

* Comprehensive bibliographic essays covering each of the four parts
* 23 images and 12 maps

Italy in the Modern World also firmly places both the nation and its people in a wider global context through a distinctly transnational approach. It is essential reading for all students of modern Italian history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350005204
• Artikelnr.: 57903576

Autorenporträt

Linda Reeder is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, USA. She is the author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Images List of Maps Timeline Introduction Part I
Italians and the Making of Italy, 1800
1870 Overview 1. 'Italy' in 1800 2. Restoration and Italian Nationalism, 1815
1848 3. Wars of Unification, 1848
1870 4. Setting up House, 1870
1880 Part II
Italians and the Liberal State, 1880
1914 Overview 5. Work, Family and the State 6. Italians in the World 7. Italy in the World: Domestic Ambitions and Imperial Failures 8. Science and the Arts Part III
War, Fascism and Occupation Overview 9. The Great War 10. Fascism 11. War, Occupation and Resistance, 1940
45 12. Reconstruction Part IV
The Republic: New Politics and New Voices Overview 13. Society and Politics in the Cold War, 1945
1965 14. 1968: Politics in a New Key 15. A New Republic? 1989
2001 16. Italy in the 21st Century Index