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Loading... A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 (original 1989; edition 2003)by Paul Ginsborg
Work InformationA History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 by Paul Ginsborg (1989)
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In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as most fundamentally clear in the role of the family and it is the family which is at the heart of Italian politics and business. Anyone wishing to understand contemporary Italy will find it essential to have this enormously attractive and intelligent book. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)945.092History and Geography Europe Italy and region Italy United Italy 1870-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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The period covered corresponds to the Christian Democrat Party's entrenchment in power and its alliances with lesser equals, most notably the Communists.
Ginsborg sums up by saying that political reform in Italy has always been hampered by the slowness and reluctance of state machinery to implement it, because of pervading clientalist mentalities, the autonomy of state and regional bureaucracies and constant negotiation between competing interests.