This book focuses on the politics of national identity in Italy. Only a unified country for just over 150 years, Italian national identity is perhaps more conti

A collection of a dozen penetrating critical essays discussing the development of Italian national identity, from political, economic and cultural points of vie

Niccolò Machiavelli may not have been a cynical realist as he is often portrayed. On the contrary, this book argues that he precociously possessed the characte

This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after Worl

This important new book considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and