The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32

The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32
Author: John F. Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521023665

This book examines the relations between the Vatican and the Fascist regime in Italy during the period 1929-1932. The author sets out what he believes to be the long-term consequences of the 1931 crisis, and in so doing challenges a number of previously accepted interpretations.

Italy from Liberalism to Fascism

Italy from Liberalism to Fascism
Author: Christopher Seton-Watson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2024-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040010024

First published in 1967, Italy from Liberalism to Fascism is essentially the political history of Italy, concerned with both domestic and foreign policy and their interaction. Designed in chronological order, the book is divided into four parts: the consolidation of Italy after its unification; the stresses and strains the country went through; the expansion of liberalism; and the onset and development of fascism. This seminal book on the history of Italy will be of interest to students of history and political science.

Chiesa e Stato

Chiesa e Stato
Author: P. Vincent Bucci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9401504911

Italy is left out of most contemporary comparative studies of political systems. This omission can be due neither to any intrinsic unimportance of Italy in Europe, nor to the absence of parallel similarities and differ ences - the prerequisites of comparative explanation - between the Italian and other Western political systems. It may be due to the paucity of case studies of Italian politics, upon which comparisons would have to be based. Professor Bucci's book will contribute toward overcoming this scarcity. Not only is Italy under-represented in comparative studies of post war European politics, but there is also a shortage of monographs dealing with particular aspects of Italian politics since the founding of the Republic, especially in English. I hope that Dr. Bucci's work, which is based exclusively upon original Italian sources, signals the beginning of exploration, more systematic than hitherto, of the goldmine for case studies which post-war Italian politics presents to political scientists.

Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs

Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs
Author: Frank J. Coppa
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791401859

Coppa provides the first full-length study of Giacomo Antonelli, friend and advisor to Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) and his Secretary of State and chief minister from 1849 to 1876. Based on the documents of the secret Vatican Archives, and neglected family papers in the State Archive in Rome, the book gives an important reevaluation of this key diplomatic figure, separating the man from the myth and delving into his character and policies. The book examines both the personality and policies of the Cardinal, who was seen to be the Pope’s Richelieu and Mazarin combined. Confronting the polemical literature which has charged him with sexual misconduct and venality, the study examines his early formation and career, the inspiration for his European policies, his relationship to Pio Nono, and the part he played in the Counter-Risorgimento and the Papal reaction. By improving our understanding of Papal, Italian, and European developments during these crucial decades, this study provides new insights into Rome’s fortress mentality and its rejection of the main currents that were transforming western life— currents that influenced not only the Catholic Church but European society as a whole.

Italy's Social Revolution

Italy's Social Revolution
Author: M. Quine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2002-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403919798

The study of welfare can illuminate debate about some of the grand themes in modern Italian history - the question of the success or failure of nation-building; the question of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the state; and the question of continuity and discontinuity from liberalism to fascism. It can also deepen understanding of one of the most pressing problems confronting historians of Italian fascism - the question of the actual impact of fascist rule on Italian society. Despite this, surprisingly few scholars have done any work on this important topic. This book aims to contribute to scholarship on the social history of modern Italy by examining welfare thinking and policies from the nineteenth century to the fascist period.

Modern Italy

Modern Italy
Author: Denis Mack Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472108954

A new edition of the classic historical text on Italy

The Italian Legal Tradition

The Italian Legal Tradition
Author: Thomas Glyn Watkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429760531

First published in 1997, this volume provides the reader from a common law background with an introduction to the Legal System and basic private law institutions of contemporary Italy. It aims to afford a basic understanding, rather than a detailed presentation, of Italian law, through an appreciation of its historical development within the civil law tradition and its place in that family of legal systems descended from Roman law. Having described Italy’s place in European legal history and identified the main features of civil law systems generally, it examines the structure of the modern Italian State, its legislative process. Constitution, legal professions and systems of civil, criminal and administrative justice. The last third is devoted to private law, in particular the law relating to the family, property, contracts and civil wrongs, particular attention being paid to differences between the civil and common law approaches to these subjects. It is a readable, lucid and systematic account of its subject.

Nineteenth-Century European Catholicism

Nineteenth-Century European Catholicism
Author: Eric C. Hansen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351609408

Included in this bibliography, originally published in 1989, are books, pamphlets, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections, published for the most part since 1900, which present Catholic development in the nineteenth-century as its major theme. Each entry is annotated with the major idea or theme of the work as expressed by its author or editor. This title will be of interest to students of European History and Religious Studies.