Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family: The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009280174ISBN-10:1009280171UPC:9781009280174Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeSize:8.82 x 5.75 x 0.32 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SCGJNE1MMD
What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? And what should we learn from the experiences of a martyred liberal democrat father and his communist son? Through the prism of a single, exceptional family, the Amendolas, R.J.B. Bosworth reveals the heart of twentieth-century Italian politics. Giovanni and Giorgio Amendola, father and son, were both highly capable and dedicated Anti-Fascists. Each failed to make it to the top of the Italian political pyramid but nevertheless played a major part in Italy's history. Both also had rich but contrasting private lives. Each married a foreign and accomplished woman: Giovanni, a woman from a distinguished German-Russian intellectual family; Giorgio, a Parisian working class girl, who, to him, embodied Revolution. This vivid and engaging biographical study explores the highs and lows of a family that was at the centre of Italian politics over several generations. Tracing the complex relationship between Anti-Fascist politics and the private lives of individuals and of the family, Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family offers a profound portrait of a century of Italian life.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009280174ISBN-10:1009280171UPC:9781009280174Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeSize:8.82 x 5.75 x 0.32 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SCGJNE1MMD
Bosworth, R. J. B.: - R.J.B. Bosworth is one of the world's leading historians of modern Italy. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oxford and the author or editor of thirty-one books and many chapters and articles. He published his first book with Cambridge, Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (1979), and was co-editor, with Joseph Maiolo, of the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). His numerous prize-winning publications include the definitive biography of Mussolini in English.
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