Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy

by Michel Huysseune

The northern Italian, 'Padanian' identity, fostered by the Lega Nord , is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy's (real or presumed) inadequacies - such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime - this imagined geography acquired political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845450612
• ISBN13: 9781845450618
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"