A Concise History of Italy

 

A Concise History of Italy
A Concise History of Italy
by Authors: Christopher Duggan
Released: 21 April, 1994
ISBN: 0521408482
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A Concise History of Italy > Customer Review #1:
History of italy and horrid socialism

Great book. Provides a lot of good information about how Benito Mussolini was a socialist who joined with the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was the leader of the Socialist Party of Italy. Like many modern media Mussolinis, he was a socialist and a journalist. Between 1912 and 1914 he was the editor of the Socialist Party newspaper, "LAvanti." In late 1937, Mussolini visited Germany and pledged himself to support the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1938, he introduced his reform of customs." Hand-shaking was suddenly banned as unhygienic: a salute was to be used instead - the right forearm raised vertically. He imposed a new march on the Italian Army which was simply the goose-step of the National Socialist German Workers Party. According to the book these reforms were introduced mainly to underline ideological kinship with the National Socialist German Workers Party and to impress its leader. The so-called Roman salute (saluto romano) is as much of a fiction as the so-called Roman step (passo romano) as is the idea that the National Socialist German Workers Party emulated Mussolini and not vice versa.

The author should examine whether the monsters were influenced by national socialists in the U.S. (including Francis Bellamy) who in 1892 created the Pledge of Allegiance with its original straight-arm salute, to promote a government takeover of education (with racist/segregated schools that lasted into the 60s), to produce an "industrial army" for the totalitarian vision portrayed in Edward Bellamys book "Looking Backward."



A Concise History of Italy > Customer Review #2:
Great insight into Italys past - and present

This book offers the best introduction available to the history of Italy. In less than three hundred pages, Duggan offers a concise summary of the past 1600 years of the peninsula. His focus in this book is on the multitude of efforts during this period to build an Italian nation out of the rubble of the Roman empire, a goal only achieved in 1860 and then in an imperfect, fragmentary form, with subsequent generations left with the more difficult task of creating a national identity. Duggan recounts this with insight and the result is essential reading, not only for students of Italys past but for those seeking insight into the nations troubled present as well.

A Concise History of Italy > Customer Review #3:
Renaissance to the Republic

This book is great for the student or traveller wishing to get a quick overview of Italy, its politics, and its people. I read this on a plane from NYC to Rome and finished it. It is very easy to read. It really doesnt leave anything out either; the general history of Italy is covered. Also, the bibliography will point you in the right direction for additional reading.

 
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