Italian Contemporary History: syllabus
Week 1: Risorgimento
John Davis, 1796-1870: The Age of the Risorgimento, in George Holmes (ed.), The Illustrated Oxford History of Italy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997
Week 2: The Catholic Church
David Kertzer, Religion and Society 1789-1892 in John Davis (ed.), Italy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000
Week 3: Liberal Era
Adrian Lyttelton, Politics and Society 1870-1915, in Holmes (ed.), The Illustrated Oxford History of Italy
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Week 4: Liberal Era
Adrian Lyttelton, Politics and Society 1870-1915, in Holmes (ed.), The Illustrated Oxford History of Italy
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Week 5: State and Nation-Building
John Dickie, Imagined Italies and Gabriella Gribaudi, Images of the South in David Forgacs and Robert Lumley (ed.), Italian Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press 1996
Week 6: Fascist Regime
Paul Corner, Italy 1915-1945: Politics and Society, in Holmes (ed) The Illustrated Oxford History of Italy Eleven to Twelve: Età Repubblicana
Week 7: Second World War
Paul Ginsborg, Resistance and Liberation in P. Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics 1943-1988, Penguin, London etc. 1990
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Week 8: Republican Era 1
Gianfranco Pasquino, Political Development, in Patrick McCarthy (ed.), Italy since 1945, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York 2000
Week 9: Social Movements
Percy Allum, Italian Society Transformed, in McCarthy (ed.), Italy since 1945
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Week 10: Republican Era 2
Perry Anderson, The Land Without Prejudice, “London Review of Books, Vol. 24, No. 6, 21 March 2002)
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Week 11: Italian Society Today
Paul Ginsborg, Berlusconi’s Project in P. Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi. Television, Power and Patrimony, Verso 2005
Week 12: Italian Society Today
Paul Ginsborg, Berlusconi’s Project in P. Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi. Television, Power and Patrimony, Verso 2005
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