Italy's Social Revolution

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2. The Social Mission of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism

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   2. Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and the Promise of Good Government

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   3. Reform and the Risorgimento

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   4. State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862–1890

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3. State Welfare in the Age of the Masses

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   2. The Rise of Giolitti’s ‘Insurer State’

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   3. Fascism’s New Deal: Social Insurance under a ‘Totalitarian’ State

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   4. Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy under Fascism

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4. The Problem of Child Abandonment from Liberalism to Fascism

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   2. Outcast Infants and the Liberal State

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   3. Religion, Science, and Beneficence

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   4. The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism

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   5. From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927–1938

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   6. An Italian Social Revolution?

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5. Back Matter

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The study of welfare can illuminate debate about some of the grand themes in modern Italian history - the question of the success or failure of nation-building; the question of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the state; and the question of continuity and discontinuity from liberalism to fascism. It can also deepen understanding of one of the most pressing problems confronting historians of Italian fascism - the question of the actual impact of fascist rule on Italian society. Despite this, surprisingly few scholars have done any work on this important topic. This book aims to contribute to scholarship on the social history of modern Italy by examining welfare thinking and policies from the nineteenth century to the fascist period.

• fascism
• history
• revolution
• Risorgimento

'Anyone interested in the social history of the late liberal and fascist periods should find this study well worth reading.' - Italian Politics & Society

• University of London, UK

  Maria Sophia Quine

MARIA SOPHIE QUINE is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies.

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