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How Many Italies? Reconciliation, the Risorgimento and Italy's North South Divide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2012

John A. Davis
John A. Davis
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut, USA. Email: john.davis@uconn.edu
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Abstract

Italy is a critical point of reference for studying the strengths and limits of strategies of reconciliation in divided European societies, one that demonstrates the validity of Iván Zoltán Dénes’ introductory comment that the presence of ‘divided, sometimes antagonistic, communities in officially unified nations seems to be the rule in Europe’.

Type
Focus: European Civil Wars
Information
European Review , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , 04 September 2012 , pp. 505 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2012

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