1800年以来的意大利：一个平衡的国家？

自统一以来，意大利已经从一个落后的农业社会发展成为世界领先的工业大国之一。然而，她的历史表现出惊人的不一致、矛盾和悖论。在政治天主教的主导下，她也曾是法西斯主义、黑手党和东欧集团以外最大的共产主义运动的发源地。她的政治是出了名的fissiparous，但政策本身从未改变。直到现在。这篇关于意大利民族国家历史发展的及时、引人入胜、插图丰富的报道追溯了“意大利”过去的主要悖论，并质疑她可能会成为什么样的人。
Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance?
Since unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world’s leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes. Dominated by political Catholicism, she has also been home to Fascism, the mafia, and the largest Communist movement outside the Eastern Bloc. Her politics are notoriously fissiparous – yet policy itself never changes. Until now. This timely, absorbing and richly illustrated account of the historical development of the Italian nation-state traces the main paradoxes of what `Italy’ has been, and questions what she may become.

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