The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italian History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentiloni Silveri, Umberto.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This new volume edited by two significant scholars of Italian history and politics offers students and scholars a sweeping overview of the modern history of a country that has played a crucial role in the history of Europe over the past two centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Note

Part I: Risorgimento

Chapter 1: Building a Nation

A Political and Emotional Journey

Imagining and Talking About the Nation

A Story of Crises and Opportunities (a Quasi Chronology)

Emotional Landscapes in The Background: Women and Families

Conclusions: Sliding Doors, Contingencies, and Political Visions

Notes

Chapter 2: Mediterranean Belonging and National Identity

Chapter 3: Transnational Risorgimentos: Actors, Spaces, Narratives

Actors and Narratives

Mobilizations and Celebrities

Spaces and Lenses

Chapter 4: The Risorgimento at War: Revolution, Unification, and Nation in Contemporary Italy (1848-1871)

The Italian National Question

Monarchical Patriotism and Revolutionary Nationalism

Disciplined Revolution and the War of Unification

Civil Conflict and National War

Chapter 5: Nation and Nationalism from the Risorgimento to the First World War

A Universal Concept of Nation

Pre-Unification Nationalism

The Liberal Nation

The Ideologization of the Nation

Part II: Liberal Italy

Chapter 6: The Twentieth Century

Giolitti the 'Tailor'

Socialists and Nationalists

The Real Country

The Presence and Struggles of Women

Cultural Life

Chapter 7: One Country, One Market?: Economic Integration and Growth in Liberal Italy

An Economic Resurrection?

Networks: The Sinews of a Common Market

Food, Fashion and Foreign Lands

Chronic Illnesses: Public Debt, Tax Evasion and the North-South Divide

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Italy at War

1914: Italy Facing the European War

1915-1916: The Italian War

1917-1918: From War to Peace

Epilogue: An Endless War?

Notes.

Chapter 9: Liberal Italy: The International Framework

Part III: Fascism

Chapter 10: The Fascist Regime in Italy

The Conquest of Power (1919-1922)

Immediately a Regime (1922-1929)

Totalitarian Modernity (1930-1943)

The Italian Social Republic (1943-1945)

Chapter 11: Fascist Colonialism

From Liberal to Fascist Italy

1926: A Turning Point

Mobilizing the Army

Mobilizing Culture

Mobilizing People

Living Under the Fascist Empire

Chapter 12: The Ideology of the Totalitarian State

What Is the Ideology of Fascism?

The Myth of the State

The Relationship Between Fascism and Nationalism: A Never-Ending Debate

Conclusions

Chapter 13: The Italian Resistance Between Liberation Struggle, Class Conflict, and Civil War

The Crisis of the Fascist Regime and the Armistice of 8 September

The Birth of the CLN and the Resistance

The Resistance in the Cities: The GAPs

In the Mountains: The Development of the Partisan Movement, Its Crisis and Rebirth

The Insurrection

Chapter 14: Fascist Antisemitism

The Choice of State Racism

The Passage to Action: The 1938 Laws

The Entry into War in 1940

Conclusion: The Shoah in Italy

Part IV: Post-1945

Chapter 15: The Constituent Phase, 1946-1948

The Democracy of the Parties

The New Italy: The Foundation of the Republic

The Political Fractures During the Constituent Phase: The End of the Anti-Fascist Alliance

A Choice of Civilization: Italy in the Cold War

Chapter 16: Italian Political Cultures from the Birth of the Republic to the First Phase of the Cold War (1943-1956)

Chapter 17: New Republic, European Integration

Chapter 18: From the Golden Age to the Stagflation Crisis: The Italian Economy Within the International Business Cycles

The Italian Economy: Internal Dynamics and the International Context

Italy During the Golden Age

Reversing the Cycle: Italy Between Stagflation and Reorganisation

Chapter 19: From Crisis to Collapse: Italy 1968-1994

"New Times Are Coming"

The Seventies: A Democracy in Emergency

The 1980s: Weak Politics Put to the Test of Governing Modernization and Globalization

Epilogue: The Collapse: 1989-1994

Chapter 20: Political Terrorism

A Complex Constellation

The Context

Piazza Fontana, the First Neo-Fascist Massacre

The Strategy of Tension and the Evolution of Black Terrorism

The Origins of Red Terrorism

A Violent Escalation

The State's Response to Red Terrorism

Terrorism Between News and History: Representations, Definitions, and Controversies

Chapter 21: A Long and Unstable Transition Process: Women's Rights in the Italian Republic from the Second World War to the 1980s

Public Space: The Conquest of Political Rights

Work and Social Rights

The Private Sphere: The Family, the Body and Sexuality

Chapter 22: Italy and the End of the Cold War

Italy, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and German Reunification

Italy and the Gulf War

The Crisis in Yugoslavia

The Birth of the European Union

Part V: New Italy

Chapter 23: Italy and European Integration from the 1980s to the Present Day

European Constraints and 'Technical Governments'

The Difficult Relationship with the EU on Migration Issues

The Perennial Difficulties in Structural Fund Expenditures

The Evolution of Italian Europeanism: Decline or Normalisation?

Chapter 24: Economics and Politics in the Transformation of Italian Democracy Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Currency, Global Capital and Political Change: Towards a Respublica Mercatoria (1960s-1980s)

September 1992: The Perfect Storm

The Race to the Euro and the Missed Path: Italy in the Common Currency

The Italy Risk and the Future of Europe: From the 2011 Crisis to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Chapter 25: The Mediterranean and Immigration

From the Crisis of 1973 to 1989

From 1989 to 2010

From 2010 to the Present Day

Chapter 26: The Political System Between Internal Dynamics and the International Context, 1973-1993

A Country in the Balance

The Contradictions of the 1980s

The Crisis of the Republic of Parties

Chapter 27: Italy at the End of the Twentieth Century

A New Phase of Italian History

Old Fractures in a New World

A Look at the Twenty-First Century

Part VI: Issues

Chapter 28: The New Master Narrative: The Memory of the Resistance and the "Good Italian"

The Various Stages of the Memory of the Resistance: From the End of the War to the Crisis of the First Republic

Challenging the Paradigms of National Memory: The Right Wing in Government

The Reaction of the Left and the Role of the Quirinale

The Memory of the Holocaust and the New Civic Calendar

Chapter 29: Racism

Introduction: The Italian Racial Innocence Myth

Across Political Regimes: The Italian and Its Others

Since the 1980s: Mainstreaming Racisms

Ius Soli Never: A Discriminatory Citizenship Law

Conclusion: The Constitution's Unfulfilled Promise of Equality

Chapter 30: Catholic Italy: Church, State, and Nation

Chapter 31: The Military

Beyond Stereotypes.

Unification and Its Memory

From Crispi to Giolitti

A Truly Great War

In the Brief Period Between War and Peace

Fascism in Power

Fascism at War

The War of Liberation

The Republic Between Ricostruzione and the Cold War

The Military from the Sixties to the Seventies, up to the End of the Cold War

The Peace Dividend and New 'Humanitarian' Tasks

New Challenges and New Struggles

Chapter 32: The Southern Question and Extraordinary Intervention Policy: Lines and Themes for Understanding North-South Dualism in Italian Nation-Building

1945-1973: Reconstruction and the 'Long' Post-War Period

1973-1992: Crisis and the 'Northern Question'

Chapter 33: The Welfare State

The Italian Trajectory in the European Context

The Early Years of the Republic

The 1960s and 1970s: Social Reforms

Welfare in Neoliberal Times

Chapter 34: Ecological Legacies: Italy's Environmental History from Catastrophe to Responsibility

Founding Principles: Conservationism and Environmental Awareness

Political Environmentalism, from the Stockholm Conference to the Chernobyl Disaster

In Pursuit of Environmental Justice

Chapter 35: Foreign Policy: Research Themes and Key Factors, from the Cold War to a Globalized World

Research Themes

Key Factors

Conclusions: The 'Europeanization' Factor

Chapter 36: Challenging the Risorgimento in Southern Italy

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Gentiloni Silveri, Umberto The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italian History

ISBN:

9781040733790

9781003275176

OCLC:

1600522486

Publisher Number:

CIPO000404537