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Italy (Paperback, Reissue)
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Italy (Paperback, Reissue)
Series: Inventing the Nation
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During the first half of the 1990s it seemed that Italy was in
danger of disintegration. The collapse of the established political
parties and the increasing prominence of the secessionist Northern
League had public commentators debating whether Italy constituted a
nation at all. It appeared
that despite over 130 years as a unified state, Italy retained a
weakly developed sense of nationhood. Yet if we assume modern Italy
is essentially fraudulent, we will not understand why Italy remains
intact at the end of the twentieth century, nor will we understand
the unique kind of nation which
the Italians have created for themselves. This new study proceeds
with the working assumption that Italy is indeed a nation, albeit
of a particular kind, and offers a detailed discussion of its
historical development. It argues that the exigencies of
state-formation were more important in the
founding of the Kingdom of Italy than nationalism, and then argues
that early failures to engineer an Italian national consciousness
were due to the state's refusal to integrate local cultures into a
consolidated national culture. Rather, a nation was gradually
developed from within society, through
the construction of a public sphere, through mass communications,
migration movements, and mass consumerism.
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