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ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: ALLEN LANE] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: ALLEN LANE] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: ALLEN LANE] Hardcover Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! [Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. [Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover 2007-08-30. Allen Lane. Hardcover. GOOD DJ good, spine sunned. 9.5x6.5. [Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0713997095, ISBN13: 9780713997095, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. "The Force of Destiny", Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to this idea. While sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he strongly distinguishes this from its political role over the past two centuries, which has been both vicious and ruinous for Europe as a whole.Verdi's great opera "The Force of Destiny", one of the key works celebrating Italy's wish for independence, also points to Italy's fundamental problem. Throughout the 19th century Italy struggled to unite under one rule all Italian speakers, throwing aside a multitude of corrupt old rulers and colonial occupiers. Through all these struggles, the politicians of Italy felt impelled by a 'force of destiny' hideously at odds with Italian reality. After immense struggle and with endless sacrifices, a united Italy was at last created which proved to be as impoverished, backward and marginal as it had been before.The resentments this created fed into Italy's overwhelmingly destructive role, as colonial predator, as a faithless and ruinous element in the First World War: these resentments in turn led to the rise of Mussolini who ...
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London, England Allen Lane 2008 Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. 652 p. Contains: Illustrations. Allen Lane History S. Audience: General/trade.
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