Silvana Patriarca

Italian Vices

Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study of national character in modern Italian history that sheds new light on Italian political culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780521761017
• ISBN-10: 0521761018
• Artikelnr.: 28532083

Autorenporträt

Silvana Patriarca is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Fordham University. She is the author of award-winning Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Indolence and regeneration
2. Making Italians of character
3. Latin individualism in the age of empire
4. Virtues of war: Italian character 'tested' and 'revealed'
5. 'A difficult substance to modify'
6. Autobiographies of the nation
7. Good people
8. 'Italians, that's the way they are'
Conclusion.