Shedding light on Italian political culture, this fascinating study of Italian national character and its vices shows how they first became a political issue during the struggle for national independence and that they were consequently shaped by foreign images, stereotypes of the Italians and changing political and intellectual contexts.
Shedding light on Italian political culture, this fascinating study of Italian national character and its vices shows how they first became a political issue during the struggle for national independence and that they were consequently shaped by foreign images, stereotypes of the Italians and changing political and intellectual contexts.
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.
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.
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