Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Notes from the Author
Part One: The Fatherland of the Italians
Introduction: The Fatherland's Jubilee
1. Modernity Freedom Italianità
2. Complex of Greatness
3. The Italies of Monarchic Italy
Part Two: Which Italy?
4. The Metamorphosis of a Myth
5. Italianism and Modernity
6. Italian Imperialists
7. The Man and the Patriot
Part Three: The Fascist Nation
8. Italy in Black Shirts
9. Remaking the Italians
10. A New Imperial Civilization
11. The Fascist War
12. The Failed Identity
Part Four: No-man's-Land
13. Where Is Italy?
14. Pull the Idol Down
15. In Search of a Country
Part Five: The Country of Political Parties
16. A Great but Small Nation
17. A Myth for the Republic
18. The Italies of Republican Italy
Conclusion: The Jubilee of the Simulacrum
Notes
Index