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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624389603321

Autore

Gentiloni Silveri Umberto

Titolo

The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019 / / by Umberto Gentiloni Silveri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031143649

9783031143632

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 pages)

Collana

Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-294X

Disciplina

327.45

945.092

Soggetti

History, Modern

Italy - History

Social history

Civilization - History

Modern History

History of Italy

Social History

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Foreword -- 2. Postwar -- 3. The Economic Miracle -- 4. The Seventies -- 5. Funeral of a Republic -- 6. Toward the End -- 7. The Collapse -- 8. The Impossible Transition -- 9. Between Europe and the Mediterranean -- 10. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a history of contemporary Italy from the collapse of Mussolini to the present, placing this major Euro-Mediterranean country in a wider geo-political perspective. It examines how Italian history and politics developed in relation to - and were shaped by - the international context, from the Cold War and NATO to the European integration process and the global challenges of 1989. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri highlights all major events, structural limits, contradictions and conflicts influencing Italian democracy and the



political system until today. He explores the continuous tension between 'stabilization' and 'conflict', between the promise of an innovative and evolutionary representative democracy on the one hand and the constraints of a political system conditioned by structural limits and old contradictions on the other. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.