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

Preface to the English Edition vii

Introduction to the English Edition ix

Introduction 1

Foreword: The "Original Sin" 13

Part I The Original Characteristics

1 How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness 27

2 The Phantom Nation 35

3 The Northern Question 43

4 Inventing Ancestors 49

5 The Unhappy Consciousness of Italian Development 55

6 A Culture without a Nation 61

7 The Difficult Italianization of the Piedmont 69

8 The Difficult Piedmontization of Italy 75

9 The Moderate Social Bloc 81

Part II The Permanencies

10 Transformism 91

11 Internationalization Crises and Transformism 99

12 Emerging Sectors and Transformism 105

13 The Southern Question 111

Part III Identity and Sovereignty

14 A Counter-Reformist Identity 121

15 A Civil "Guelph" Religion 129

16 The Quest for a Civil Italian Religion 137

17 A Petit-Bourgeois Fatherland 145

18 A Country of Limited Sovereignty 153

19 Identity and Development 161

20 The Failure of "Democratic Nationalization" 167

21 Italian Metamorphoses 177

22 Between Europe and the Mediterranean 183

23 The Internationalization Crisis of the 1990s 191

Conclusion 199

Biographies 203

Notes 217

References 249

Index 259