Italian Vices

Informationen zum Autor Silvana Patriarca is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Fordham University. She is the author of award-winning Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1996). Klappentext A fascinating study of national character in modern Italian history that sheds new light on Italian political culture. Zusammenfassung Shedding light on Italian political culture! this fascinating study of Italian national character and its vices shows how they first became a political issue during the struggle for national independence and that they were consequently shaped by foreign images! stereotypes of the Italians and changing political and intellectual contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Indolence and regeneration; 2. Making Italians of character; 3. Latin individualism in the age of empire; 4. Virtues of war: Italian character 'tested' and 'revealed'; 5. 'A difficult substance to modify'; 6. Autobiographies of the nation; 7. Good people; 8. 'Italians, that's the way they are'; Conclusion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Silvana Patriarca, Silvana (Fordham University Patriarca, Patriarca Silvana
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521761017
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76101-7
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history