The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-14363-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

This book offers a history of contemporary Italy from the collapse of Mussolini to the present, placing this major Euro-Mediterranean country in a wider geo-political perspective. It examines how Italian history and politics developed in relation to - and were shaped by - the international context, from the Cold War and NATO to the European integration process and the global challenges of 1989. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri highlights all major events, structural limits, contradictions and conflicts influencing Italian democracy and the political system until today. He explores the continuous tension between 'stabilization' and 'conflict', between the promise of an innovative and evolutionary representative democracy on the one hand and the constraints of a political system conditioned by structural limits and old contradictions on the other.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gentiloni Silveri, Umberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Foreword.- 2. Postwar.- 3. The Economic Miracle.- 4. The Seventies.- 5. Funeral of a Republic.- 6. Toward the End.- 7. The Collapse.- 8. The Impossible Transition.- 9. Between Europe and the Mediterranean.- 10. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Umberto Gentiloni Silveri is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.