The Failure of Italian Nationhood: The Geopolitics of a Troubled Identity

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Foreword: The “Original Sin”....Pages 13-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness....Pages 27-33
The Phantom Nation....Pages 35-41
The Northern Question....Pages 43-47
Inventing Ancestors....Pages 49-53
The Unhappy Consciousness of Italian Development....Pages 55-60
A Culture without a Nation....Pages 61-67
The Difficult Italianization of the Piedmont....Pages 69-73
The Difficult Piedmontization of Italy....Pages 75-79
The Moderate Social Bloc....Pages 81-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Transformism....Pages 91-97
Internationalization Crises and Transformism....Pages 99-103
Emerging Sectors and Transformism....Pages 105-110
The Southern Question....Pages 111-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
A Counter-Reformist Identity....Pages 121-127
A Civil “Guelph” Religion....Pages 129-135
The Quest for a Civil Italian Religion....Pages 137-143
A Petit-Bourgeois Fatherland....Pages 145-151
A Country of Limited Sovereignty....Pages 153-160
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Identity and Development....Pages 161-166
The Failure of “Democratic Nationalization”....Pages 167-175
Italian Metamorphoses....Pages 177-182
Between Europe and the Mediterranean....Pages 183-189
The Internationalization Crisis of the 1990s....Pages 191-197
Conclusion....Pages 199-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-264