Italian Modernities: Competing Narratives of Nationhood

by Rosario Forlenza, Bjorn Thomassen, Bjørn Thomassen

This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137501553
• ISBN13: 9781137501554
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.6"