Italy
| Author/creator | Doumanis, Nicholas Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Hodder Arnold [Imprint] London : Hodder Education Gordonsville : Macmillan [Distributor] |
| Description | 208 p. ill 08.800 x 05.900 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Inventing the Nation Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation During the first half of the 1990s it seemed that Italy was in danger of disintegration. The collapse of the established political parties and the increasing prominence of the secessionist Northern League had public commentators debating whether Italy constituted a nation at all. It appearedthat despite over 130 years as a unified state, Italy retained a weakly developed sense of nationhood. Yet if we assume modern Italy is essentially fraudulent, we will not understand why Italy remains intact at the end of the twentieth century, nor will we understand the unique kind of nation whichthe Italians have created for themselves. This new study proceeds with the working assumption that Italy is indeed a nation, albeit of a particular kind, and offers a detailed discussion of its historical development. It argues that the exigencies of state-formation were more important in thefounding of the Kingdom of Italy than nationalism, and then argues that early failures to engineer an Italian national consciousness were due to the state's refusal to integrate local cultures into a consolidated national culture. Rather, a nation was gradually developed from within society, throughthe construction of a public sphere, through mass communications, migration movements, and mass consumerism. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780340691618 |
| ISBN | 0340691611 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780340691618 |
| Stock number | 01320338 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |