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Author: Frank M. Snowden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521527101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid history of Apulian farm workers' struggle to win the ordinary decencies of life.
Author: Jonathan Dunnage
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317886917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing 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.
Author: Giulia Albanese
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1000554538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last years, the discussion around what is fascism, if this concept can be applied to present forms of politics and if its seeds are still present today, became central in the political debate. This discussion led to a vast reconsideration of the meaning and the experience of fascism in Europe and is changing the ways in which scholars of different generations look at this political ideology and come back to it and it is also changing the ways in which we consider the experience of Italian fascism in the European and global context. The aim of the book is building a general history of Fascism and its historiography through the analysis of 13 different fundamental aspects, which were at the core of Fascist project or of Fascist practices during the regime. Each essay considers a specific and meaningful aspect of the history of Italian fascism, reflecting on it from the vantage point of a case study. The essays thus reinterrogates the history of Fascism to understand in which way Fascism was able to mould the historical context in which it was born, how and if it transformed political, cultural, social elements that were already present in Italy. The themes considered are violence, empire, war, politics, economy, religion, culture, but also antifascism and the impact of Fascism abroad, especially in the Twenties and at the beginnings of the Thirties. The book could be both used for a general public interested in the history of Europe in the interwar period and for an academic and scholarly public, since the essays aim to develop a provocative reflection on their own area of research.
Author: George Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780192854445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.
Author: John Foot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 152665248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred years after the rise to power of Fascism in Italy, John Foot's bracing and bold Blood and Power vividly recreates the on-the-ground experience of life under the regime. - Robert S C Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Mussolini, they would systematically destroy the organisations of the left, murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Using the accounts of real people – fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.
Author: Christopher Duggan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-04-21
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521408486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.
Author: Charles L. Killinger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-07-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0313011230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Italy? In 1814 Austrian Chancellor M. de Metternich dismissed it as a mere geographical expression, because political control of the peninsula had long been divided among self-governing cities, possessions of foreign dynasties, and the Vatican. Prior to that, Italy had formed the home base of the Roman Empire. It was not until 1861 that a united Italy emerged. This concise, and clearly written account explores Italian history and culture from the Etruscans to the present day. Starting with an introduction providing data on Italy's geography, people, and current government, the book examines the political and cultural history of the country in eleven chapters. Readers will discover the Romans, Lombards, popes, Guelphs, Ghibbellines, the Medici, the Risorgimento, sculptors, composers, Fascists, Christian Democrats, and many other people and events of Italy's rich history. Included are a biographical section with portraits of noteworthy Italians, an extensive bibliographical essay, a glossary of terms, and an index, making this book the most complete and up-to-date general history of the nation available.
Author: Martin Blinkhorn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1134997043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: John Francis Pollard
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415116312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development of Italian Fascism, and surveys the themes and issues of the movement. It includes fully integrated analysis, extensive notes on sources, a glossary, and a useful guide to further reading.
Author: Perry Willson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1136496971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeasant women were the largest female occupational group in Italy between the wars. They led lives characterised by great poverty and heavy workloads, but Fascist propaganda extolled them as the mothers of the nation and the guardians of the rural worlds, the most praiseworthy of Italian women. This study is the first published history of the Massaie Rurali, the Fascist Party's section for peasant women, which, with three million members by 1943, became one of the largest of the regime's mass mobilizing organizations. The section played a key role in such core fascist campaigns as nation-building and ruralization. Perry Willson draws on a wide range of archival and contemporary press sources to investigate the nature of the Massaie Rurali and the dynamics of class and gender that lay at its heart. She explores the organization's political message, its propaganda and the reasons why so many women joined it.
