History of Italy. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Baldoli, Claudia
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Maps, Chronologies and Boxes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The 'Barbarian' Middle Ages: Invasions, Culture, Religion; 'May you live in harmony': Latin and Gothic populations in Italy; A province of the empire; A project for Italian unification? The Lombards in the peninsula; The myth of Rome in the Germanic empire; A new language; Further reading; 2 The Middle Ages of the Cities; Year 1000 and thereabouts; Monastic art and holy wars: the Roman Church in the new millennium; The Maritime Republics; Landscape, cities and countryside; City-states; Southern Italy. Literary texts, music and artFurther reading; 3 The Middle Ages of the Courts; Rebirth after plague: the Age of the Signorie; The papacy between Rome and Avignon; Saints and cities; Saints, witches, or mothers: images of women between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; The Italian language in the age of Dante and Petrarch; The birth of an Italian cuisine; Further reading; 4 Renaissance Italy: From the European Model to the 'End of Italy'?; Italian politics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Renaissance and humanism; Artists and architects; Courtiers. The Counter-Reformation, the new Rome and Italy in the sixteenth centuryLiterature and Italian language in the sixteenth century; Further reading; 5 Under Popes and Distant Kings: Italy in the Age of the Baroque; Italian politics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; The post-Tridentine social world; A violent country?; An age of hunger; Philosophy, science and religion; Clergy, saints and magic; Art, architecture, literature and music in the Baroque age; The continuing language debate; Further reading; 6 A National Melodrama: The Epic of the Risorgimento; The Italian Enlightenment. The legacy of the French Revolution and NapoleonLanguage and nation; Romanticism and Risorgimento; The development of a national discourse; The Revolution begins: 1848; The impossible restoration; Wars and revolutions from Genoa to Rome -- via Palermo, Naples and Venice; Further reading; 7 Liberal Italy; Celebrating the new nation; Contesting the nation: the Catholic Church; Contesting the nation: socialist Italy; Contesting the nation: banditry and the 'southern question'; Italians abroad; Towards industrialization: women's work between fields and factories. 'La Belle Epoque': the Giolitti ageFurther reading; 8 From Hunger to Hedonism: Italy in the Twentieth Century; The Italian people between peace and war; The defeat of Italian democracy; Mussolini's Italy; Words that did not become reality: Fascist wars and defeats; Italian art of the reconstruction; Italian society during the Republic; A consumer society; Further reading; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 945; Italy-History; Italy -- History; Civilization; HISTORY / Europe / Italy; Italy -- History; Italy -- Civilization; Italy; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137013664; 9781137013668
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