Twentieth Century Italy

A Social History

Jonathan Dunnage (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2003
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-29278-9 (ISBN)

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Italy has undergone a social, political and economic transformation during the 20th century. This social history looks at the everyday life of Italians against a dramatic backdrop of the move to mass politics, fascism, war, economic boom, and organized crime and corruption.

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines contemporary Italian society in the light of the political and moral crisis of the early 1990s.

Jonathan Dunnage is a lecturer in the Italian Department (School of European Languages)at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Introduction: between tradition and modernity
1. Italian society in the wake of the Risorgimento, 1860-1914
2. Social fragmentation and violence in italy, 1915-25
3. The experience of Fascism, 1925-39
4. War, civil conflict and the defeat of Fascism, 1940-50
5. Social, cultural and economic transformation in post-war Italy (1950-1980)
6. Affluence and moral crisis: Italian society in the eighties and nineties
Conclusion: Italian society at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Appendix I: chronology
Appendix II: glossary
Select bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2003
Reihe/Serie	Social History of Europe
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 158 mm
Gewicht	808 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-582-29278-6 / 0582292786
ISBN-13	978-0-582-29278-9 / 9780582292789
Zustand	Neuware