a very short introduction
A01=Paul Ginsborg
andrew roberts
anne applebaum
arundhati roy the ministry of utmost happiness
aston villa
Author_Paul Ginsborg
books my brilliant friend
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
elena ferrante
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
european
first world war
genghis khan
god of small things
indian summer
magna carta
military history books
nicola upson
reservoir 13
robert tombs
seamus heaney
stalins daughter
the dark heart
the english and their history
the hare with amber eyes
the leopard by giuseppe di lampedusa
the silk roads: a new history of the world
the world at war
tim parks
truman capote
ww2
Product details
- ISBN 9780140124965
- Weight: 407g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 1990
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as most fundamentally clear in the role of the family and it is the family which is at the heart of Italian politics and business. Anyone wishing to understand contemporary Italy will find it essential to have this enormously attractive and intelligent book.
PAUL GINSBORG was born in London in 1945. He is currently Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence and was formerly Reader in European Politics at Cambridge. His last book for Penguin was the now famous A HISTORY OFCONTEMPORARY ITALY, 1943-1988.
