Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italian History

Umberto Gentiloni Silveri is Full Professor in Contemporary History at the Sapienza University of Rome.Andrea Mammone is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the Sapienza University of Rome.

• Introduction Part I: Risorgimento 1. Building a Nation 2. Mediterranean Belonging and National Identity 3. Transnational Risorgimentos: Actors, Spaces, Narratives 4. The Risorgimento at War: Revolution, Unification, and Nation in Contemporary Italy (1848-1871) 5. Nation and Nationalism from the Risorgimento to the First World War Part II: Liberal Italy 6. The Twentieth Century 7. One Country, One Market? Economic Integration and Growth in Liberal Italy 8. Italy at War 9. Liberal Italy: The International Framework Part III: Fascism 10. The Fascist Regime in Italy 11. Fascist Colonialism 12. The Ideology of the Totalitarian State 13. The Italian Resistance Between Liberation Struggle, Class Conflict, and Civil War 14. Fascist Antisemitism Part IV: Post-1945 15. The Constituent Phase, 1946-1948 16. Italian Political Cultures from the Birth of the Republic to the First Phase of the Cold War (1943-1956) 17. New Republic, European Integration 18. From the Golden Age to the Stagflation Crisis: The Italian Economy within the International Business Cycles 19. From Crisis to Collapse: Italy 1968-1994 20. Political Terrorism 21. A Long and Unstable Transition Process: Women's Rights in the Italian Republic from the Second World War to the 1980s 22. Italy and the End of the Cold War Part V: New Italy 23. Italy and European Integration from the 1980s to the Present Day 24. Economics and Politics in the Transformation of Italian Democracy Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 25. The Mediterranean and Immigration 26. The Political System Between Internal Dynamics and the International Context, 1973- 1993 27. Italy at the End of the Twentieth Century Part VI: Issues 28. The New Master Narrative: The Memory of the Resistance and the “good Italian” 29. Racism 30. Catholic Italy: Church, State and Nation 31. The Military 32. The Southern Question and Extraordinary Intervention Policy: Lines and Themes for Understanding North-South Dualism in Italian Nation-building 33. The Welfare State 34. Ecological Legacies: Italy’s Environmental History from Catastrophe to Responsibility 35. Foreign Policy: Research Themes and Key Factors, from the Cold War to a Globalized World 36. Challenging the Risorgimento in Southern Italy