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A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics: 1943-1988 (Penguin History)

By Paul Ginsborg

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
1990
ISBN
0140124969, 9780140124965
LCC
DG572 .G48 1990
Open Library ID
OL1587534M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21873212 bytes)
Pages
591\591
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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