The book delineates the emergence of a unitary state from the bedrock of a nation formed over centuries. It retraces the major advances in the integration between the state and civil society achieved in the first fifty years after unification, and the disastrous consequences wrought by the First World War and by Fascism. It underscores the way in which the post-war democratic revival rewound the virtuous process of construction of a state capable of expressing the Italian "plural nation". Despite this, it also stresses the way in which the ethical deterioration and the corruption of the political and administrative class that came to a head during the last twenty years of the twentieth century have again brought to the fore the problem of the construction of shared institutions.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4303-553X
Book Title
Nazione e Stato nella storia d'Italia
Authors
Sandro Rogari
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
52
Publication Year
2010
Copyright Information
© 2010 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-982-3
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-984-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-982-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-696-2
Series Title
Lectio Magistralis
Series ISSN
2612-7725
Series E-ISSN
2704-5935