• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • News

  • Italy: A Short History

    Italy by Hearder, Harry;

    A Short History

      • GET 20% OFF

      • The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
      • Publisher's listprice GBP 26.00
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        13 158 Ft (12 532 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount 20% (cc. 2 632 Ft off)
      • Discounted price 10 527 Ft (10 026 Ft + 5% VAT)

    13 158 Ft

    db

    Availability

    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
    Not in stock at Prospero.

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Edition number 2, Revised
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 13 December 2001

    • ISBN 9780521000727
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages308 pages
    • Size 226x152x20 mm
    • Weight 500 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8 b/w illus. 7 maps
    • 0

    Categories

    Short description:

    This book presents a clear, concise account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present.

    More

    Long description:

    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 the contradictions of the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. Jonathan Morris brings the work up to the present day with an authoritative but colourful history of the corruption scandals that brought down the post-war Italian political system in the 1990s and the new political forces that have emerged in its place.

    '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

    More

    Table of Contents:

    1. Italy in the classical world; 2. The early Middle Ages; 3. The high Middle Ages; 4. The Renaissance; 5. The political and cultural eclipse of Italy; 6. The Risorgimento, 1790-1861; 7. From Unification to Fascism, 1861-1922; 8. The Fascist disaster, 1922-45; 9. Italy since the Second World War, 1945-2000.

    More