In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy), Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as most fundamentally clear in the role of the family and it is the family which is at the heart of Italian politics and business. Anyone wishing to understand contemporary Italy will find it essential to have this enormously attractive and intelligent book.
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"...the best single work on postwar Italian history...readers will find this work invaluable."--John S. Hill, History: Reviews of New Books
"A work of major importance. It has a moral grandeur and a coherence of interpretation and approach that all in all likelihood will ensure it classic status... No future account of the Italian republic will be able to ignore it." -- Christopher Duggan, The Times Literary Supplement
"The achievement of Paul Ginsborg's massive volume is that the political drama is brilliantly interwoven with the whole cultural and economic history of the country... Page after page may be read with interest and delight by all true English lovers of Italy." -- Michael Foot, Guardian
"This is the best account of contemporary Italian history available to the English reader." -- Jonathan Morris, The Times
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"A work of major importance. It has a moral grandeur and a coherence of interpretation and approach that all in all likelihood will ensure it classic status... No future account of the Italian republic will be able to ignore it." -- Christopher Duggan, The Times Literary Supplement
"The achievement of Paul Ginsborg's massive volume is that the political drama is brilliantly interwoven with the whole cultural and economic history of the country... Page after page may be read with interest and delight by all true English lovers of Italy." -- Michael Foot, Guardian
"This is the best account of contemporary Italian history available to the English reader." -- Jonathan Morris, The Times
About the Author
PAUL GINSBORG was born in London in 1945. He is currently Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence and was formerly Reader in European Politics at Cambridge. His last book for Penguin was the now famous A HISTORY OFCONTEMPORARY ITALY, 1943-1988.
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An in-depth survey of Italy's social and political dynamics,
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This review is from: A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 (Paperback)
A History Of Contemporary Italy: Society And Politics 1943-1988 by Paul Ginsborg (Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence) is an in-depth survey of Italy's social and political dynamics that saw it evolve from a war-torn and poverty-stricken, primarily agrarian country, into a prosperous, politically stable member of the European community. Here ably and accessibly recounted are the events, personalities, and reforms that were critical to eventually overcoming endemic and persistence corruptions, shortages, and obstacles necessary before the tremendous achievements of contemporary Italy and its eventual entrance into the European Union. A History Of Contemporary Italy: Society And Politics 1943-1988 is a scholarly, meticulous history and a welcome and recommended contribution to European International Studies and 20th Century Italian History reference collections and reading lists.
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... for anyone interested in an extremely rich and contradictory social environment such as Italy after WWII. It is a complete, clear, and deeply intriguing work that I strongly recommend.
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As good as the critics say-- well-written, based on very extensive Italian sources. But written from a far-Left perspective. Ginsborg wants to see Italian capitalism destroyed but he doesn't tell us how this is to occur -- presumably not through the ballot box-- and he doesn't tell us what will be put in its place. This permits him to criticize everything and be held responsible for nothing.
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"AT MIDDAY on 9 September 1943, a young Scottish prisoner of war, Stuart Hood, walked out of his prison camp near Fontanellato di Parma, on the Emilian plain south of the Po." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blocco dominante, famiglia degli anni, operai comuni, ruolo del riformismo, spreco edilizio, piano del lavoro, triangolo industriale, riforma fondiaria, organizzazioni cattoliche, ceti medi, economica della ricostruzione, famiglie agricole, movimento contadino, government special agencies, riforma agraria, lotte operaie, disoccupati organizzati, case del popolo, del latifondo, sulle classi sociali, amministrativo italiano, legge truffa, corrective reform, questione femminile, agrarian contracts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Democrats, United States, Red Brigades, Lotta Continua, Chamber of Deputies, Action Party, Council of Ministers, Aldo Moro, President of the Republic, Catholic Action, Cold War, Soviet Union, Third Italy, Bank of Italy, Common Market, Emilio Colombo, Piazza Statuto, First World War, Victor Emanuel, Constituent Assembly, Giulio Andreotti, Secretary of State, Marshall Aid, Minister of Agriculture, Reggio Calabria New!
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"AT MIDDAY on 9 September 1943, a young Scottish prisoner of war, Stuart Hood, walked out of his prison camp near Fontanellato di Parma, on the Emilian plain south of the Po." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blocco dominante, famiglia degli anni, operai comuni, ruolo del riformismo, spreco edilizio, piano del lavoro, triangolo industriale, riforma fondiaria, organizzazioni cattoliche, ceti medi, economica della ricostruzione, famiglie agricole, movimento contadino, government special agencies, riforma agraria, lotte operaie, disoccupati organizzati, case del popolo, del latifondo, sulle classi sociali, amministrativo italiano, legge truffa, corrective reform, questione femminile, agrarian contracts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Democrats, United States, Red Brigades, Lotta Continua, Chamber of Deputies, Action Party, Council of Ministers, Aldo Moro, President of the Republic, Catholic Action, Cold War, Soviet Union, Third Italy, Bank of Italy, Common Market, Emilio Colombo, Piazza Statuto, First World War, Victor Emanuel, Constituent Assembly, Giulio Andreotti, Secretary of State, Marshall Aid, Minister of Agriculture, Reggio Calabria New!
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