A History of Contemporary Italy : Society and Politics, 1943-1988

Preface 1(4) Map of Italy 5(1) Presidents of the Republic and Presidents of the Council of Ministers 6(2) Italy at War 8(31) Resistance and Liberation 39(33) The Post-war Settlement, 1945--8 72(49) The Agrarian Reform 121(20) Christian Democracy in State and Society 141(45) Left-wing Politics and the Working-class Movement in the 1950s 186(24) The `Economic Miracle', Rural Exodus and Social Transformation, 1958--63 210(44) The Centre-left, 1958--68 254(44) The Era of Collective Action, 1968--73 298(50) Crisis, Compromise and the `Anni di Piombo', 1973--80 348(58) Italy in the 1980s 406(20) Statistical Appendix 426(30) Notes 456(80) Bibliography 536(34) Index 570