R.J.B. Bosworth (University of Oxford)

Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family

The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms

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Produktbeschreibung

What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? This vivid and engaging biographical study explores the highs and lows of a family that was at the centre of Italian politics over several generations, and traces the complex relationship between public and private life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781009280174
• ISBN-10: 1009280171
• Artikelnr.: 67254515

Autorenporträt

R.J.B. Bosworth is one of the world's leading historians of modern Italy. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oxford and the author or editor of thirty-one books and many chapters and articles. He published his first book with Cambridge, Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (1979), and was co-editor, with Joseph Maiolo, of the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). His numerous prize-winning publications include the definitive biography of Mussolini in English.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
Introduction
Dramatis personae
1. Political violence and the Amendolas, father and son
2. The rise of Giovanni Amendola, 1882-1919: Man of liberal democratic ambition
3. Giovanni Amendola: a condottiere of pure anti-fascism?
4. Nelia Pavlova, Giovanni's last lover, convinced admirer and liberal democrat partisan
5. Giorgio Amendola 1907-43: True love and totalitarianisms (Italian-style)
6. Giorgio Amendola and a national road to socialism and the end of history
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.