{"product_id":"italia-rediviva-9781680531879","title":"Italia Rediviva","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this well received volume, Cambridge polymath Neil Kent seeks to provide a readable history, rich in both anecdotes and statistics, for students and a wide reading public who are interested in Italy in a period of history which - while it has been widely examined with respect to the Risorgimento as a positive and progressive movement which united Italy and enabled it to enter the modern world – has failed to consider Italy's multiplicity of cultures, art, architecture and societies. The period from 1740-1900, however, is neglected. This book rectifies the situation, examining the Catholic Church and its relationship to Jews, Protestants, Moslems, and the state; the relationship of urban areas to the countryside, with various regional dimensions; art, architecture, literature and music; famines, epidemics, health, and hygiene; the family, women, and sexual identity; war, peace, criminality, and the Mafia.Italia Redivivathus focuses on how Italians lived and interacted on a grass-roots level.\n\u003cbr\u003eRather than considering the Risorgimento and Italy’s national unification as the defining events of the period, this work provides an alternative focus, rejecting sweeping conclusions in favor of a more nuanced analysis in which the regional societies, religious communities, local cultures and economic activities that informed the Italian peninsula from 1740-1900 are set against a complex background of conflict and cooperation, at a time of growing industrialization, secularism, and economic competition, which witnessed the rise of an independent Kingdom of Naples to the assassination of King Umberto I.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neil Kent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48277835677947,"sku":"9781680531879","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781680531879_64e1d06f-266f-49c4-8b07-6b62f26cfcab.jpg?v=1772486024","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/italia-rediviva-9781680531879","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}