Michel Huysseune teaches Political Science at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He has published numerous articles on nationalism in scholarly journals and contributed to various encyclopedias, such as the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2003) and the Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (2004). He is the author of La franc-maçonnerie. Mythe et réalité (1992) and co-editor of the volume Secession, History and the Social Sciences (2002).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Modernity, National Identity and the Social Sciences: An Interpretative FrameworkChapter 2. Narratives of Italy’s Incomplete ModernisationChapter 3. Theories on Italy’s Modernisation: Explaining the Italian SonderwegChapter 4. Representations of Northern and Southern ItalyChapter 5. The Political Discourse of the Lega NordChapter 6. Anti-Secessionist Discourses in ItalyChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Michel Huysseune teaches Political Science at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He has published numerous articles on nationalism in scholarly journals and contributed to various encyclopedias, such as the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2003) and the Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (2004). He is the author of La franc-maçonnerie. Mythe et réalité (1992) and co-editor of the volume Secession, History and the Social Sciences (2002).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Modernity, National Identity and the Social Sciences: An Interpretative FrameworkChapter 2. Narratives of Italy’s Incomplete ModernisationChapter 3. Theories on Italy’s Modernisation: Explaining the Italian SonderwegChapter 4. Representations of Northern and Southern ItalyChapter 5. The Political Discourse of the Lega NordChapter 6. Anti-Secessionist Discourses in ItalyChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Michel Huysseune teaches Political Science at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He has published numerous articles on nationalism in scholarly journals and contributed to various encyclopedias, such as the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2003) and the Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (2004). He is the author of La franc-maçonnerie. Mythe et réalité (1992) and co-editor of the volume Secession, History and the Social Sciences (2002).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Modernity, National Identity and the Social Sciences: An Interpretative FrameworkChapter 2. Narratives of Italy’s Incomplete ModernisationChapter 3. Theories on Italy’s Modernisation: Explaining the Italian SonderwegChapter 4. Representations of Northern and Southern ItalyChapter 5. The Political Discourse of the Lega NordChapter 6. Anti-Secessionist Discourses in ItalyChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex