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Southern Europe?: Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day
Martin Baumeister (Ed.)
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Description for Southern Europe?: Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day
Paperback. Editor(s): Baumeister, Martin; Sala, Roberto. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as Southern Europe? makes clear, Western European societies were in fact divided by deep political and economic inequalities. While nations in the north embodied consolidated democracies, Spain, Portugal, and Greece were at times all authoritarian regimes. Deeply afflicted with underdevelopment, these countries were cut off from the economic miracles other Western European states were experiencing. With its weak democracy, Italy held a contradictory position between the struggles of the Iberian and Greek peninsulas and ... Read more
According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as Southern Europe? makes clear, Western European societies were in fact divided by deep political and economic inequalities. While nations in the north embodied consolidated democracies, Spain, Portugal, and Greece were at times all authoritarian regimes. Deeply afflicted with underdevelopment, these countries were cut off from the economic miracles other Western European states were experiencing. With its weak democracy, Italy held a contradictory position between the struggles of the Iberian and Greek peninsulas and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Campus Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593504827
SKU
V9783593504827
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99-16
About Martin Baumeister (Ed.)
Martin Baumeister is director of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome, Italy. Roberto Sala is a researcher in the Department of History at the Universitat Basel, Switzerland.
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