Italy and the military : cultural perspectives from unification to contemporary Italy /: cultural perspectives from unification to contemporary Italy. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mattia Roveri.
• Editors: Roveri, Mattia
• Contents: INTRODUCTION 1. The Military and Us: Towards a New Approach to the Study of the Military in Culture Mattia Roveri I. JOURNALISM 2. 'What an Aesthetic War': The Italian Media Strategy and the Military during the First World War Marco Mondini 3. Sports and the Military in Italian Newspapers from the First World War Francesca Gatta 4. The Army and Military Policies of Post-Unification Italy in the Milanese Radical Press Morena Corradi II. LITERATURE 5. Verga's 'L'amante di Gramigna': Outlaws and Disorder in Militarized Post–Unification Italy Susan Amatangelo 6. Military Service in Textbooks for Italian Soldiers, 1861–1914 Marco Rovinello 7. The Montale Siblings and the Great War Giuseppe Gazzola III. MEMORY 8. Two Italian Colonial Massacres David Forgacs 9. 'Contadini in divisa': Conscription's Making and Unmaking of Italians from Rural Piedmont Fiona M. Stewart 10. Italy's Fields of Glory: WWI Battlefield Travel and the Uses of Public Memory, 1919–1953 David Aliano IV. IDEOLOGY 11. Visualizing Italy through a Militant Lens: F.T. Marinetti and Italy's Military Experience Ernest Ialongo 12. The Artist-Officer: War, Beauty and the Nation in Ardengo Soffici's Kobilek Simona Storchi 13. Squadrismo and the Militarization of Politics Alessandro Saluppo V. VISUALS 14. Imaging the Military in Modern and Contemporary Italian Art Adrian R. Duran 15. Soldiers for the Mob: The Military as Metaphor for Italian Organized Crime Rebecca Bauman 16. The Black American Soldier: Italian Cinematic Reflections Shelleen Greene and Mattia Roveri, New York University.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 355.00945; History; Military history; History -- Military -- General; History -- Social History; Military history; Social & cultural history; History -- Europe -- Italy; European history; Italy--History; Civilization--History; Italy -- History, Military
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030571610
• Related ISBNs: 9783030571603
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