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001 2009039352
003 DLC
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008 090922s2010 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780521761017 (hardback)
020 $a0521761018 (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn440283138
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050 00 $aDG442$b.P327 2010
082 00 $a945.091$222
100 1 $aPatriarca, Silvana.
245 10 $aItalian vices :$bnation and character from the Risorgimento to the republic /$cSilvana Patriarca.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 278 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIndolence and regeneration -- Making citizens of character -- Latin individualism in the age of empire -- Virtues of war : Italian character "tested" and "revealed" -- "A difficult substance to modify" -- "Autobiographies" of the nation -- "Good people"? -- "Italians, that's the way we are".
520 $a"Why do Italians believe that they have a national character and that this character is a major reason for their political woes? Why is their self-image so frequently derogatory? In this meticulous new study of the role of national character in Italian political and social discourse, Silvana Patriarca reconstructs the genealogy of a pervasive idea in the culture of modern Italy. Using sources ranging from political pamphlets to newspapers and films, this book shows how self-representations of national character and its vices were shaped by foreign perceptions and stereotypes, internal political struggles, and changing intellectual paradigms. Investigating the politics of these representations, their ideological content, and their uses, the author recasts the study of Italian patriotism and nationalism as discourses and sheds new light on Italian political culture and on the rhetoric of nationalism more generally"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Italian$xHistory.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zItaly$xHistory.
650 0 $aPolitics and culture$zItaly$xHistory.
650 0 $aNationalism$zItaly$xHistory.
651 0 $aItaly$xPolitics and government$y1870-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/61017/cover/9780521761017.jpg