Title: Modern Italy, 1871-1995 /
Authors: Clark, Martin, 1938-; Clark, Martin, 1938-
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Italy History; Italy History
Abstract: This is an analytical account of the political, economic and social history, from the unification of Italy in 1871 under Victor Emmanuel II to the present day. It emphasises the complex relationship between state institutions and the mass population.
Contents: Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Italietta -- a backward society? -- Ch. 3. The Liberal State -- Ch. 4. The subversives -- Ch. 5. The first crisis of the Liberal State, 1887-1900 -- Ch. 6. The first 'economic miracle': industrialization and the economy, 1896-1914 -- Ch. 7. Politics in the age of Giolitti, 1900-14 -- Ch. 8. An Italian people? -- Ch. 9. Italy and the Great War -- Ch. 10. The Strange death of Liberal Italy, 1919-25 -- Ch. 11. The Fascist State: the new authoritarianism -- Ch. 12. The Fascist regime: the quest for consensus -- Ch. 13. The economy and society under the Fascists -- Ch. 14. Fascist diplomacy and Fascist war -- Ch. 15. Resistance and renewal: Italy from 1943 to 1948 -- Ch. 16. The triumph of 'Low Politics' -- Ch. 17. The economy and society under the Republic -- Ch. 18. The Great Cultured Revolution: Italy in the 1970s -- Ch. 19. The economy and society, 1980-95 -- Ch. 20. The collapse of the 'First Republic'?