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Building a Civil Society - Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy (Hardcover, New)
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Building a Civil Society - Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Toronto Italian Studies
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The most passionate advocates of Italy's unification in the
nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the
benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern:
once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were
established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible,
progressive citizens - especially after centuries of foreign rule,
regional division, and economic decline? Most unification advocates
doubted that their fellow citizens could form a modern, progressive
civil society on their own, or that a vibrant association life
would develop from the ground up. Building a Civil Society is the
first book-length English-language study of associational life in
nineteenth-century Italy. Drawing on extensive research in
published and unpublished documents - including associational
records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks,
exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters - Steven C.
Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during
Europe's age of association. His study also raises important
questions about the role that associations play in emerging
democracies.
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