The Bounded Field: Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

by Jaro Stacul

Book Overview

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries and private property form the background against which regionalist ideologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571814639
• ISBN13: 9781571814630
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"