Twentieth Century Italy

Jonathan Dunnage

Introduction: between tradition and modernity. 1. Italian society in the wake of the Risorgimento, 1860-1914. 2. Social fragmentation and violence in italy, 1915-25. 3. The experience of Fascism, 1925-39. 4. War, civil conflict and the defeat of Fascism, 1940-50. 5. Social, cultural and economic transformation in post-war Italy (1950-1980). 6. Affluence and moral crisis: Italian society in the eighties and nineties. Conclusion: Italian society at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Appendix I: chronology. Appendix II: glossary. Select bibliography. Index.