Volume 3, Number 2, Winter 2011
EDITORIAL
The Long Road to National Unity
Maurizio Carbone and James L Newell
SYMPOSIUM
The 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification
Guest editors: Isabella Clough Marinaro and James Walston
Introduction: Italy’s 150th Anniversary
James Walston
Rethinking the Italian Liberal State
Nick Carter
The Boundaries of Unitarian Italy: Gender and Class between Personal and Public Sources. Four Intellectual Couples Compared
Claudia Gori
From Myth to Reality and Back Again: The Fascist and Post-Fascist Reading of Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen
Encountering Italy: Military Service and National Identity during the First World War
Vanda Wilcox
Interventionism in 1915and the Man of Letters: The Ethical Commitments of Serra and the ‘Armed Poet’ D’Annunzio
Patrizia Piredda
ARTICLES
'Alternation? - What Alternation? The Second Republic and the Challenge of Democratic Consolidation
Phil Edwards
Regionalist Party Formation in Italy: A Case Study of the Valle d’Aosta
John Brice
DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES
The Premature End of the Fourth Berlusconi Government: An Updating of Indicators of the Government’s Legislative Performance and Productivity
Francesco Marangoni
Nichi Vendola: For the New ‘Laboratory’ of the Italian Left
Marco Damiani
NEWS AND EVENTS
Robert D. Putnam between Italy and the US
Sergio Fabbrini
The Italian Political System 150 Years On: The Risorgimento’s Relevance Today
Simona Piattoni
BOOK REVIEWS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS