Italy's Social Revolution: Charity and Welfare from Liberalism to Fascism

ISBN-13: 9780333632611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 429 str.

Maria Sophia Quine

Opis

The study of welfare can illuminate debate about some of the grand themes in modern Italian history - the question of the success or failure of nation-building; the question of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the state; and the question of continuity and discontinuity from liberalism to fascism. It can also deepen understanding of one of the most pressing problems confronting historians of Italian fascism - the question of the actual impact of fascist rule on Italian society. Despite this, surprisingly few scholars have done any work on this important topic. This book aims to contribute to scholarship on the social history of modern Italy by examining welfare thinking and policies from the nineteenth century to the fascist period.

Recenzje

'Anyone interested in the social history of the late liberal and fascist periods should find this study well worth reading.' - Italian Politics & Society

Spis treści

Abbreviations Preface PART I: THE SOCIAL MISSION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBERALISM Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and Promise of Good Government Reform and the Risorgimento State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862-1890 PART II: STATE WELFARE UIN THE AGE OF THE MASSES The Rise of Giolitti's Insurer State Fascism's New Deal: Social Insurance under a Totalitarian State Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy PART III: THE PROBLEM OF CHILD ABANDONMENT FROM LIBERALISM TO FASCISM Introduction: Charity, the State, and Compassion: The Modernization of Social Values Outcast Infants and the Liberal State Religion, Science, and Beneficence The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927-1938 An Italian Social Revolution? Bibliography Index

O autorze

MARIA SOPHIE QUINE is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies.