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| List of Maps, Chronologies and Boxes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The �Barbarian� Middle Ages: Invasions, Culture, Religion | |
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| �May you live in harmony�: Latin and Gothic populations in Italy | |
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| A province of the empire | |
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| A project for Italian unification? The Lombards in the peninsula | |
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| The myth of Rome in the Germanic empire | |
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| A new language | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Middle Ages of the Cities | |
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| Year 1000 and thereabouts | |
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| Monastic art and holy wars: the Roman Church in the new millennium | |
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| The Maritime Republics | |
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| Landscape, cities and countryside | |
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| City-states | |
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| Southern Italy | |
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| Literary texts, music and art | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Middle Ages of the Courts | |
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| Rebirth after plague: the Age of the Signorie | |
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| The papacy between Rome and Avignon | |
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| Saints and cities | |
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| Saints, witches, or mothers: images of women between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | |
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| The Italian language in the age of Dante and Petrarch | |
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| The birth of an Italian cuisine | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Renaissance Italy: From the European Model to the �End of Italy�? | |
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| Italian politics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries | |
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| Renaissance and humanism | |
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| Artists and architects | |
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| Courtiers | |
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| The Counter-Reformation, the new Rome and Italy in the sixteenth century | |
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| Literature and Italian language in the sixteenth century | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Under Popes and Distant Kings: Italy in the Age of the Baroque | |
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| Italian politics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | |
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| The post-Tridentine social world | |
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| A violent country? | |
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| An age of hunger | |
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| Philosophy, science and religion | |
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| Clergy, saints and magic | |
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| Art, architecture, literature and music in the Baroque age | |
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| The continuing language debate | |
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| Further reading | |
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| A National Melodrama: The Epic of the Risorgimento | |
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| The Italian Enlightenment | |
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| The legacy of the French Revolution and Napoleon | |
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| Language and nation | |
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| Romanticism and Risorgimento | |
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| The development of a national discourse | |
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| The Revolution begins: 1848 | |
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| The impossible restoration | |
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| Wars and revolutions from Genoa to Rome-via Palermo, Naples and Venice | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Liberal Italy | |
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| Celebrating the new nation | |
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| Contesting the nation: the Catholic Church | |
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| Contesting the nation: socialist Italy | |
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| Contesting the nation: banditry and the �southern question� | |
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| Italians abroad | |
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| Towards industrialization: women's work between fields and factories | |
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| �La Belle Epoque�: the Giolitti age | |
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| Further reading | |
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| From Hunger to Hedonism: Italy in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Italian people between peace and war | |
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| The defeat of Italian democracy | |
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| Mussolini�s Italy | |
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| Words that did not become reality: Fascist wars and defeats | |
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| Italian art of the reconstruction | |
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| Italian society during the Republic | |
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| A consumer society | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |