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| Description | | - The first volume (along with Italy: The Nineteenth Century by John Davis) of the major new Short Oxford History of Italy series
- Chapters linked together by a substantial introduction and conclusion, and by internal cross-references
- Includes detailed chronology, further reading as well as a comprehensive index
- An explicit thematical approach creating a broad framework of events, in a series of analytical surveys of society, politics, economics, culture, etc.
- The contributors are leading scholars at the cutting edge of historiography (series editor is Professor John Davis, Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History in the University of Connecticut)
| The Short Oxford History of Italy
series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each period, will present the most recent historical perspectives on Italian history. This means setting Italian history in the broader context of European history as a whole. It also means questioning accepted interpretations of Italian
history in each of these periods and, in particular, the idea that Italy's history has been significantly different from that of the rest of Europe. Each volume will emphasise how developments in Italy in each period are best understood as variants on broader European patterns of political, economic social and cultural change.
Italy since 1945
sets in context the tremendous changes that
Italy has undergone in the last 55 years. In place of the land of pizza, sunshine, and soccer, McCarthy describes a developing nation: an economy that has found its own road to success via the piccole imprese
with an increasingly strong stockmarket and more sophisticated banking; a dynamic, traditional, family centred society; and a political system struggling to modernize after forty years
of Christian Democrat rule and Communist opposition. McCarthy also looks at the role of the Church, including Pius XII's wartime activities and the 'foreign pope', John-Paul II before finally turning to sport in Italy - the only country to have 3 daily newspapers devoted to the subject.
Athoritative, accessible, and absorbing, the book examines modern Italy through the eyes of 10 leading
commentators and explores the Italian experience in the wider context of both the nation's past and its wider contemporary European position.
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Readership: Main contextual volume for students of 20th Century Italian History. Main and supplementary text for undergraduate students and academics in the UK and US on modern European history courses, 20th Century European History, Italian History; contextual material for those on History of Art, Cultural Studies, and European Economics courses; the general reader interested in the modernization of Italy.
| Contents |
Notes on Authors
Introduction
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Patrick McCarthy
Italian Society Transformed
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Percy Allum
Evolution of the Economy
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Vera Zamagni
Political Development
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Gianfranco Pasquino
Italy and the World since 1945
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John L.Harper
Outline of the History of Italian Environmental Policies in the post war period
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Simonetta Tunesi
The Church in post war Italy
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Patrick McCarthy
The Mafia
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Salvatore Lupo
Sport
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Stefano Pivato
Memory and Identity: Popular Culture in post war Italy
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Stephen Gundle
Impegno
and the Encounter with Modernity: 'High' Culture in post war Italy
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Robert S.C.Gordon
Conclusion
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Patrick McCarthy
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Patrick McCarthy, Professor of European Studies, John Hopkins University, Bologna
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