Italian Regionalism (Paperback)

Contents: Carl Levy, Introduction: Italian Regionalism in Context -- PART I, History: The Construction of Regional Identities -- Adrian Lyttelton, Shifting Identities: Nation, Region and City -- John A. Davis, Changing Perspectives on Italy's 'Southern Problem' -- Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio Lepschy and Miriam Voghera, Linguistic Variety in Italy -- Martin Clark, Sardinia: Cheese and Modernization -- PART II, Regionalism in the Italian Republic: Centre and Periphery under Strain -- David Hine, Federalism, Regionalism and the Unitary State: Contemporary Regional Pressures in Historical Perspective -- Joseph Farrell and Carl Levy, The Northern League: Conservative Revolution? -- Percy Allum and Ilvo Diamanti, The Autonomous Leagues in the Veneto -- Anna Cento Bull, Ethnicity, Racism and the Northern League -- Appendix: Note on the Regional Elections of 1995