Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780521000727 |
| ISBN10: | 0521000726 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 308 pages |
| Size: | 226x152x20 mm |
| Weight: | 500 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 8 b/w illus. 7 maps |
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Category:
Italy
A Short History
Edition number: 2, Revised
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 13 December 2001
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Short description:
This book presents a clear, concise account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present.
Long description:
Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller, with an interest in Italian affairs. Harry Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social context, and shows how these related to the great moments of artistic and cultural endeavour. Amongst key events, he analyses the growth and decline of the Roman Empire, the remarkable cultural achievements of the Renaissance, Italian unification and the contradictions of the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. Jonathan Morris brings the work up to the present day with an authoritative but colourful history of the corruption scandals that brought down the post-war Italian political system in the 1990s and the new political forces that have emerged in its place.
'There is a fine introduction to the culture of the Renaissance and an equally positive account of the Risorgimento on which Hearder was such an expert ... another well produced and illustrated book.' Robert Pearce, History Today
'There is a fine introduction to the culture of the Renaissance and an equally positive account of the Risorgimento on which Hearder was such an expert ... another well produced and illustrated book.' Robert Pearce, History Today
Table of Contents:
1. Italy in the classical world; 2. The early Middle Ages; 3. The high Middle Ages; 4. The Renaissance; 5. The political and cultural eclipse of Italy; 6. The Risorgimento, 1790-1861; 7. From Unification to Fascism, 1861-1922; 8. The Fascist disaster, 1922-45; 9. Italy since the Second World War, 1945-2000.
