The archipelago : Italy since 1945 /
Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy could boast the fastest-growing economy in the world, as rural society disappeared almost overnight. In The Archipelago, acclaimed hi...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 1945
- Year zero. Rebuilding and remaking Italy
- Takeoff: Italy in the boom years
- Blood and reform: institutional change and violence in the 1960s and 1970s
- The 1980s and 1990s: from boom to collapse and beyond
- The second republic
- Italy in the twenty-first century: crisis, post-democracy and the tiumph of populism
- Italy today
- Conclusion: transformation and crisis.