Beschreibung
This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.
Autorenporträt
Rosario Forlenza is a Research Fellow at the European Institute, Columbia University, USA and a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Padova, Italy. He is a historian of modern Europe and twentieth century Italy, whose research is located at the intersection of history, politics and anthropology. He has published two books and several articles in journals such as History Workshop Journal, Contemporary European History, and Journal of Cold War Studies. Bjørn Thomassen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. His work spans across the social sciences with a focus on urban studies, globalisation, nationalism, memory politics in Italy, Europe and globally. Recent books are Breaking Boundaries. Varieties of Liminality (ed. Berghahn 2015), Liminality and the Modern: Living through the In-Between (Ashgate 2014), Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (2014).
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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