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Italy's divided memory / John Foot.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foot, John, 1964-
- Series:
- Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Italian and Italian American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Italy--History--1914-1945.
- Italy.
- History.
- Italy--History--1945-.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Italy.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Memory--Social aspects--Italy.
- Collective memory--Italy.
- Monuments--Italy.
- Monuments.
- War memorials--Italy.
- War memorials.
- Political culture--Italy.
- Political culture.
- Italy--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking study, John Foot argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency toward divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. Moreover, with so little agreement over what happened and why it happened, it has been extremely difficult to create any consensus around memory. These divisions can be identified throughout Italian history, but take on particular importance when linked to the great traumatic and life-changing events of the twentieth century-war, terrorism, disaster, fascism. They also manifest themselves in cultural fields such as sport and everyday life. This work delves into Italy's past, looking at stories of divided memory over various periods in the twentieth century, and points the way toward a fresh understanding of Italian history.
- Contents:
- Divided memory : theory, methodology, practice
- World War I : monument wars, unknown soldiers, and open-air cemetries
- Fascist memories, memories of fascism
- Italian wartime camps, Italians in wartime camps : traces, memories, silences, 1940-2008
- 1940-1943 : victory, occupation, defeat, collapse, memory
- Nazi massacres and divided memory : stories, causes, scapegoats, memoryscapes
- The resistance : three wars, many memories, many silences
- The strategy of tension and terrorism : Piazza Fontana and "the Moro case"
- Conclusion: End of the voyage : facts, memory, history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230618473
- 0230618472
- OCLC:
- 368049134
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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