TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foot,John
TI  - The archipelago : : Italy since 1945 
SN  - 9781408827246 
U1  - 945.092 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1994-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Introduction: 1945 - Year Zero -- 1. Rebuilding and remaking Italy -- 2. Takeoff: Italy in the boom years -- 3. Blood and reform: institutional change and violence in the 1960s and 1970s -- 4. the 1980s and 1990s: from boom to collapse and beyond -- 5. The Second Republic -- 6. Italy in the twenty-first century: crisis, post-democracy and the triumph of populism -- 7. Italy today -- Conclusion: transformation and crisis
N2  - Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy could boast the fastest-growing economy in the world, as rural society disappeared almost overnight. 

"In The Archipelago, acclaimed historian John Foot chronicles Italy's tumultuous history from the post-war period to the present. From the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the troubling reign of Silvio Berlusconi, and from the artistic peak of neorealist cinema to the celebration of Italy's 150th birthday in 2011, he examines both the corrupt and celebrated sides of the country. 
While often portrayed as a failed state on the margins of Europe, Italy has instead been at the centre of innovation and change – a political laboratory. Through stories of trials, TV programmes, songs and football matches, moments of violence and beauty, epochal social transformation and suffocating continuities, this new history tells the fascinating story of a country always marked by scandal but with the constant ability to re-invent itself. 

Comprising original research and lively insights, The Archipelago chronicles the crises and modernisations of over seventy years of post-war Italy, from its fields, factories, squares and housing estates to the political intrigue of Rome." --
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