Southern Europe? : Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s until the present day / Martin Baumeister, Roberto Sala (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumeister, Martin, editor.

Sala, Roberto, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Europe, Southern--Economic conditions.

Europe, Southern.

Europe, Southern--Social conditions.

Europe, Southern--Politics and government.

Europe, Southern--History.

Economic history.

Southern Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt-on-Main : Campus Verlag, [2015]

Summary:

Since the debt crisis broke out, Southern Europe has been the focus of public attention Made responsible for splitting up the old continent, the North-South divide has deep historical roots. After the second World War, lagging behind in their economic and political development, Spain, Portugal, and Greece as well as-in many respects-Italy deeply differed from the so-called Western European societies. At the turn of the 21st century, these countries appeared to have caught up and undoubtedly became a part of Europe's 'rich part' before however, the crisis threatened to divided the continent again. Looking at this paradoxical evolution, this book challenges general assumptions and images of Southern Europe. It tackles the question of whether the 'South' has represented an area with common paths of development whose analysis can help understand Western Europe's present and recent past. Book jacket.

Contents:

A long road south : Southern Europe as a discursive construction and historical region after 1945 / Martin Baumeister and Roberto Sala

Southern Europe in social science : a 'Southern European model'? / Martin Rhodes

Southern welfare states : configuration of the welfare balance between state and the family / Claude Martin

The interruption of industrialization in Southern Europe : a center-periphery perspective / Annamaria Simonazzi and Andrea Ginzburg

Migration and Southern Europe : a center-periphery dynamic? / Russell King

Southern Europe and the master narratives of 'modernization' and 'modernity' / Wolfgang Knöbl

Manifold discourses : mapping the south in contemporary European history / Patricia Hertel

Southern Europe and international politics in the post-war period / Guido Franzinetti

Ptolemaics and Copernicans : Southern Europe and the European integration process / Massimo Piermattei.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

9783593432571 (online)

ISBN:

9783593504827

3593504820

OCLC:

923731692

Publisher Number:

9783593504827