Disastro!
Subtitle: disasters in Italy since 1860 : culture, politics, society
By: edited by John Dickie, John Foot, and Frank M. Snowden.
Contributors: Dickie, John, 1963-; Foot, John, 1964-; Snowden, Frank M. 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Disasters -- Italy -- History -- 19th century; Disasters -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Italy -- History -- 19th century; Italy -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction John Dickie and John Foot 3; title: Studying Disasters; title: The Italian Experience of Disaster; title: PART I: STATE, NATION, AND LEGITIMACY; title: Chapter 1 "The King was pale": Italy's National-Popular Monarchy and the Construction of Disasters, 1882-1885 61; title: Catherine Brice; title: Chapter 2 Italy's Scramble for Africa from Dogali to Adowa 80; title: Giuseppe Finaldi; title: Chapter 3 The Clericals and Disaster: Polemic and Solidarism in Liberal Italy 98; title: Oliver Logan; title: Chapter 4 From Triumph to Disaster: Fascism and Malaria in the Pontine Marshes, 1928-1946 113; title: Frank M. Snowden; title: Chapter 5 The Disaster of Caporetto 141; title: Giovanna Procacci PART II: POLICY AND POLITICS; title: Chapter 6 The Evolution of Civil Protection in Modern Italy 165; title: David E. Alexander; title: Chapter 7 Three Earthquakes: Political Response, Reconstruction, and the Institutions: Belice (1968), Friuli (1976), Campania (1980) 186; title: Judith Chubb; title: PART III: EXPERIENCE, REPRESENTATION, AND MEMORY; title: Chapter 8 The Smell of Disaster: Scenes of Social Collapse in the Aftermath of the; title: Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake, 1908 235; title: John Dickie; title: Chapter 9 Memory, the Massacre, and the City: Milan and Piazza Fontana since 1969 256; title: John Foot; title: Chapter 10 A Persistent Past: The Bologna Massacre, 1980-2000 281; title: Anna Lisa Tota; title: Chapter 11 Rituals and Rhetorics of Disaster: Patterns of Catastrophe Coverage in the Italian Media: Sarno, 1998 301; title: Stefano Magistretti.