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Italy: A Short History
Harry Hearder
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Description for Italy: A Short History
Paperback. This book presents a clear, concise account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present. Num Pages: 308 pages, 8 b/w illus. 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller, with an interest in Italian affairs. Harry Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social context, and shows how these related to the great moments of artistic and cultural endeavour. Amongst key events, he analyses the growth and decline of the Roman Empire, the remarkable cultural achievements of the Renaissance, Italian unification and ... Read more
Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller, with an interest in Italian affairs. Harry Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social context, and shows how these related to the great moments of artistic and cultural endeavour. Amongst key events, he analyses the growth and decline of the Roman Empire, the remarkable cultural achievements of the Renaissance, Italian unification and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521000727
SKU
V9780521000727
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Ref
99-1
About Harry Hearder
The late Harry Hearder, who died in 1996, was a Professor at the University of Wales. His many publications on European and Italian history include Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd edition (1988) and Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento (1983). Jonathan Morris is Lecturer in Modern European History at University College, London. His publications include The Political Economy ... Read more
Reviews for Italy: A Short History
'There is a fine introduction to the culture of the Renaissance and an equally positive account of the Risorgimento on which Hearder was such an expert … another well produced and illustrated book.' Robert Pearce, History Today '… there are few English historians of Italy who write with the same ease and clarity as Hearder. Equally, there are few who ... Read more