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The pursuit of Italy
Bok av David Gilmour
The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and Verdi to the controversial political figures of the twentieth century. The book gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities and cuisine and whose inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians, but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. This is where the strength and culture of Italy still comes from, rather than from misconceived and mishandled concepts of nationalism and unity. This wise and enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner and with a coherence which no one with an interest in the country could fail to enjoy. David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. His previous books include The Last Leopard : A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (winner of the Marsh Biography Award) Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their PeoplesEngelska - Pocket
ISBN: 9780374533601
ISBN: 9780374533601
The Pursuit of Italy : A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their PeoplesEngelska - Ljudbok
ISBN: 9781541409972
ISBN: 9781541409972
The Pursuit of Italy : A History of a Land, its Regions and their PeoplesEngelska - Pocket
ISBN: 9780141043418
ISBN: 9780141043418
Auf der Suche nach ItalienEngelska - Inbunden
ISBN: 9783608947700
ISBN: 9783608947700
Pursuit of Italy : A History of a Land, its Regions and their PeoplesEngelska - E-bok
ISBN: 9780141929897
ISBN: 9780141929897
Auf der Suche nach Italien : Eine Geschichte der Menschen, Städte und Re...Tyska - Pocket
ISBN: 9783608949292
ISBN: 9783608949292
Pursuit of Italy : A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their PeoplesEngelska - E-bok
ISBN: 9781466801547
ISBN: 9781466801547
The Pursuit of Italy : A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their PeoplesEngelska - Ljudbok
ISBN: 9781541459977
ISBN: 9781541459977
The pursuit of Italy - David GilmourEngelska - Okänt
ISBN: 9781846142512
ISBN: 9781846142512
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their People...Engelska - Okänt
ISBN: 9780374283162
ISBN: 9780374283162
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