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Christopher Duggan (1) (1957–2015)

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Christopher Duggan is Reader in Italian History at the University of Reading.
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1957-11-04
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2015-11-02
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A good book to read before a trip to this island.
 
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mykl-s | 1 annan recension | Aug 11, 2023 |
As the book's title implies, this is a concise history of Italy starting from the fall of Rome to the present day. The book is too concise on Italy's history before the 19th century but does provide a good, quick overview. The book is heavily weighted to the economic history of Italy and provides a many charts that illustrate the economics. Unfortunately, the Kindle edition makes these charts very difficult to read.
 
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M_Clark | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 28, 2021 |
This excellent book is not so much a history of Italy as it is a history of the nation of Italy. As Christopher Duggan demonstrates, Italian nationalism was confined to a few intellectuals, artists and professionals, with regional identities predominant among the rest of the population. As a result, unification was superficial for much of the populace, who often found themselves at odds with the liberal state and forced to choose between this artificial link and their much deeper-seated loyalty to the Catholic Church. This approach helps make the appeal of Fascism much more understandable, with Duggan's analysis of this period one of the strongest points of this book. In the end, the reader is left with a deeper understanding of the problems Italy faces today, and perhaps as well a skepticism about the ability of Italians to address them in the future.… (mer)
 
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Verk
9
Medlemmar
590
Popularitet
#42,530
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
9
ISBN
54
Språk
5

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