On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943-1948

ISBN-13: 9780198817444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Rosario Forlenza

Opis

On the Edge of Democracy is a detailed case study of the dual political transformation that Italy underwent between 1943 and 1948: from monarchy to Republic, and from fascism to democracy. Stepping away from examining formal political activity, Forlenza focuses on the hopes, fears, and expectations that the public formulated under conditions of political and existential uncertainty.

Recenzje

... an accomplished and sure-footed synthesis of a complicated and ambiguous period that highlights the making of meaning, the agency of the subjects, and the tremendous creative energy devoted in a time of crisis that could produce a democratic republic in Italy fundamentally ex novo.

O autorze

Rosario Forlenza is a Fellow at the Remarque Institute, New York University. He is a historian of modern Europe with expertise in political anthropology, symbolic and cultural politics, politics and religion, democracy, authoritarianism and revolution, nationalism, and the politics of memory. He has worked at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Padova. He has published a number of journal articles in history and social science journals. He also co-authored a book, Italian Modernities: Competing Narratives of Nationhood (2016).