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The most passionate advocates of Italy's unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens - especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional division, and economic decline? Most unification advocates doubted that their fellow citizens could form a modern, progressive civil society on their own, or that a vibrant association life would develop from the ground up. Building a Civil Society is the first book-length English-language study of associational life in nineteenth-century Italy. Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents - including associational records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters - Steven C. Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during Europe's age of association. His study also raises important questions about the role that associations play in emerging democracies.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Building a Civil Society
• Author: Stephen Soper
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781442645035
• ISBN: 1442645032
• ID: 01343883
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 632 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 236 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. October 2013

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