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Contents

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Preface

Map of Italy

Presidents of the Republic and Presidents of the Council of Ministers

Chapter 1
Italy at War

Chapter 2
Resistance and Liberation

Chapter 3
The Post-war Settlement, 1945–8

Chapter 4
The Agrarian Reform

Chapter 5
Christian Democracy in State and Society

Chapter 6
Left-wing Politics and the Working-class Movement in the 1950s

Chapter 7
The ‘Economic Miracle’, Rural Exodus and Social Transformation, 1958–63

Chapter 8
The Centre-left, 1958–68

Chapter 9
The Era of Collective Action, 1968–73

Chapter 10
Crisis, Compromise and the ‘Anni di Piombo’, 1973–80

Chapter 11
Italy in the 1980s

Statistical Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index