The archipelago : Italy since 1945
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- By the same author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Map -- Preface -- Introduction: 1945 - Year Zero -- The Return -- Cycling Back to Normality -- 1946: Viva Toscanini! -- Paisà -- Republic of the Dead -- The Duce's Body -- 1 Rebuilding and Remaking Italy -- Dem...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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London : Bloomsbury Publishing,
2018
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| Sujets: | Italy-History-1945- Italy-Politics and government-20th century Electronic books Italien Geschichte 1945- |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource, 392 Seiten |
| Résumé: | Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- By the same author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Map -- Preface -- Introduction: 1945 - Year Zero -- The Return -- Cycling Back to Normality -- 1946: Viva Toscanini! -- Paisà -- Republic of the Dead -- The Duce's Body -- 1 Rebuilding and Remaking Italy -- Democracy -- Republic or Monarchy? -- The Referendum Campaign -- To the Polls -- Counting the Votes -- Another King Departs -- Resistance, Anti-Fascism and Post-War Italy -- Qualunquismo and Anti-Politics -- Figureheads and Symbols in Republican Italy -- Building a New State: Italy's Constitution -- Cold War -- April and July 1948: Election and Revolution - Counting Votes, Weighing Votes -- July 1948: Italy at the Barricades58 -- Revolution? -- Parishes, Priests and Catholic Culture -- The White Whale: Christian Democrats -- Corridors of Power -- Reds: Communists and the Communist Party in Italy after 1948 -- Cult of Personality -- The 'Big Moustache' is Coming: Stalin, the Soviet Union and Italian Communism -- Following Orders? -- A Mass Party -- Legacies of War: Trieste -- 1956: The Secret Speech and Hungary -- Heart of Europe: Altiero Spinelli, Italy and European Integration -- 2 Takeoff: Italy in the Boom Years -- Final Act? Post-War Peasant Struggles and Reform -- Exodus: Stories from the Great Migration -- The End of Rural Italy -- The End of Sharecropping -- Former Jobs and Nostalgia -- Money, Money, Money -- Factories and Workers -- A Love Affair: Italians and Cars -- Motorway of the Sun -- Fiataly -- Riding the Tiger? Planning and Cities -- 1963: Vajont -- Landslip: Agrigento - July 1966 -- 1966: Mud Angels -- The Brick Kings -- Cultural Change and the Boom: Italy's Soundtrack -- Cultural Change and the Boom: The Magic Rectangle - Italy and Television -- Love and Marriage before and during the Boom: Public Sinners? -- Marriage, Divorce and the Law. The Cyclist and the 'White Lady' -- Communist Morality -- Responding to the Boom: The Church -- Responding to the Boom: Politics -- 1960: Riots and the Return of Anti-Fascism -- Striped Shirts on the Streets -- 1960: The World Comes to Rome -- Centre-Left -- 1964: Rome - End of an Era -- Moral Panic: Censorship and Modernisation -- 3 Blood and Reform: Institutional Change and Violence in the 1960s and 1970s -- Concrete Utopias: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Psychiatry -- Schools, Exams and Experiments -- Letter to a Teacher -- There is Hope, if this Can Happen in Vho -- Exam Factories? -- The Battle over Divorce -- Inside the Family - Parents and Children, Husbands and Wives -- The Workers' Statute -- Prisons and Riots -- Universities and 1968 -- The Church and 1968 -- Contesting Culture -- The Merlin Law: Closing the 'Closed Houses' -- Franca Viola and Forced Marriage through Rape -- Feminism: The Public and the Private -- Abortion -- Witch Trial: The Braibanti Case, 1964-82 -- Other Italys in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s -- Cholera: Naples - 1973 -- Poison Cloud: Seveso -- Earthquake: Campania - 1980 -- Blood and Lead: Bombs, Plots and Political Violence in Italy, 1969-80 -- 12 December 1969: Massacre -- Accidental Death? The Pinelli Case -- The Coup: 1970 -- The Revolt of Reggio Calabria: 1970 -- The Millionaire and the Pylon -- Strategy of Tension -- 1977: A New 1968? -- Terrorism, Italian-Style -- 'Strike one in order to educate one hundred' (the Red Brigades) -- Fifty-Five Days in Rome -- Two Funerals, One Body -- 'Black' Terrorists -- Bologna: 2 August 1980 -- Revolution, Reform and Blood -- 4 The 1980s and 1990s: From Boom to Collapse and Beyond -- 1980: The End -- After the Factory -- Politics in the 1980s: The 'Moral Question' and Partitocracy -- The Boy in the Well: Alfredino Rampi and Italian Television - 1981 Secularisation and the Church -- Bettino Craxi: Modern Politics, Money and Corruption -- The Salesman: The Many Lives of Silvio Berlusconi -- All that Money . . . -- His Aerialness: Berlusconi and Television -- Neo-Television -- From Scandal to Triumph: The 1982 World Cup and the 'Footbalisation' of Italy -- Italy's Grandfather -- God in Naples: Maradona, 1984-91 -- Maxiprocesso: The Mafia on Trial -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- The End of the Cold War and its Impact on Italy -- New Invasions: Italy's Borders and the End of the Cold War -- Stadium of Victory -- Berlusconi and Football -- 5 The Second Republic -- Tangentopoli and Clean Hands: The Scandal and Investigation that Ended the First Republic. 1992-3 -- Il Senatur: The Rise of Umberto Bossi and the Lega Nord -- The Manager: Carlo 'il bello' -- Trial by Television: The Cusani Trial -- The Functionary: Severino Citaristi -- Decade of Austerity -- Raining Coins -- Presidents and Power -- 'Their faces are like their arses': Satire and Cuore -- Illustrious Corpses -- Mafiosi in Prison -- Neo-Post-Fascism -- The Second Republic, the Mattarellum and the End of the Christian Democrats -- Taking the Field: Berlusconi Enters Politics, 1993-4 -- Forza Italia -- A Political Earthquake -- Berlusconi in Power: Act 1 -- Naples: 'The Prime Minister is under Investigation' -- War with the Judiciary -- The Fall of Berlusconi's First Government: December 1994 -- Interregnum: 1995-6 -- Trial of the Century: 'Beelzebub' in the Dock -- Padania and the Lega Nord -- Tangentopoli: A Judicial Revolution? -- Counter-Attack: Tangentopoli as Conspiracy -- Five Too Many? The Priebke Trials and Italian Memory -- Fosse Ardeatine -- A Nazi on Trial: Rome, 1996 -- After the Trials: Priebke's Final Years in Rome and his Death -- Pure Climber: The Marco Pantani Story -- 1996: The Anti-Berlusconi The Euro, European Integration and Italy -- New Italians? -- Sport, Racism and Migration -- The Murder of Abdellah Doumi -- Controlling the Migrants -- Mosques and Islam in Italy -- Oriana Fallaci's 'The Rage and the Pride' -- Italy, Islam and the Catholic Church -- Crucifixes -- Cult: Padre Pio -- 6 Italy in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Post-Democracy and the Triumph of Populism -- Peak Berlusconi: 2001-6 -- Genoa, 2001: Days of Rage, Days of Violence, Days of Death -- Berlusconi in Power: Ad Personam -- Opposing Berlusconi -- The Second War with the Judiciary -- Censorship and Media Power -- Explaining Berlusconi -- 2006: Another Scandal and another World Cup -- From Calciopoli to Triumph -- Late Berlusconi -- Bunga Bunga Republic: Berlusconi and Sex Scandals -- Rubygate -- Endgame: Post-Berlusconi? -- Professors in Power -- 7 Italy Today -- New Emigrants: Italians on the Move -- Five Star Movement -- The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Lega and the Future of Italy -- Mario Balotelli -- Pope Francis -- Life and Death -- A Floating Cemetery -- Lampedusa, Italy and Europe: An Island of Dreams and Nightmares -- Lampedusa and Italian Politics -- The Rise and Fall of Matteo Renzi -- Conclusion: Transformation and Crisis -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- A Note on the Author -- Plate Section -- Copyright Page |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource, 392 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781408843512 140884351X 9781408827246 1408827247 |