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Italy And Its Discontents:1980 2001
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 Local Description2003. A very good copy. DescriptionContemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. The author 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. Author descriptionPaul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence and was formerly Reader in European Politics at the University of Cambridge. His last book for Penguin was the now famous A HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY, 1943-1988. Table of contentsThe Italian economy: constraints and achievements; the social hierarchies of a prosperous nation; families and consumption; civil society and mass culture; a blocked political system 1980-92; corruption and the Mafia; the state within and the state without; denoument, 1992-4; from Berlusconi to Berlusconi, 1994-2001. |
