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# Updated 21st-century insights Comprehensive 2nd edition Covers 2000+ years of history A Concise History of Italy

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## Summary

> 🇮🇹 Unlock Italy’s story like never before! 📖

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- **What is this?** A Concise History of Italy
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## Key Features

- • **Updated & Expanded Edition:** New 21st-century section and enriched 19th-20th century coverage keep you ahead.
- • **Essential Academic Resource:** Includes detailed chronology and extensive bibliographical essay for deep dives.
- • **Multi-Dimensional Narrative:** Political, economic, social, and cultural threads woven into one authoritative volume.
- • **Master Italy’s Complex Past:** From Roman Empire to modern nation-state, a seamless historical journey.
- • **Trusted by Scholars & Enthusiasts:** Praised by Italian studies clubs and history buffs alike for fresh perspectives.

## Overview

A thoroughly revised second edition from Cambridge University Press, this book offers a sweeping introduction to Italy’s history from the fall of the Roman Empire through the 21st century. Combining political, economic, social, and cultural analysis, it provides an authoritative, updated resource complete with chronology and bibliographical essay—perfect for students, professionals, and anyone eager to understand Italy’s evolving national identity.

## Description

Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan''s acclaimed introduction charts the country''s history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day and surveys the difficulties Italy has faced during the last two centuries in forging a nation state. Duggan successfully weaves together political, economic, social and cultural history, and stresses the alternation between materialist and idealist programmes for forging a nation state. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer increased coverage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, as well as a new section devoted to Italy in the twenty-first century. With a new, extensive bibliographical essay and a detailed chronology, this is the ideal resource for those seeking an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to Italian history.

Review: The text book I use in the Italian studies club - A good beginning history book for Italian history
Review: My copy is one of the not so good ones, ink is not very black - Enjoyable little book full of pieces of news usually ignored by bigger works, also by Italian Historians. My copy is one of the not so good ones, ink is not very black, but is still an interesting reading, Advised for Italian nationals that want something different form the usual angiographies.

## Features

- Cambridge University Press

## Technical Specifications

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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 64 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The text book I use in the Italian studies club
*by L***R on 27 July 2025*

A good beginning history book for Italian history

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My copy is one of the not so good ones, ink is not very black
*by A***I on 27 May 2016*

Enjoyable little book full of pieces of news usually ignored by bigger works, also by Italian Historians. My copy is one of the not so good ones, ink is not very black, but is still an interesting reading, Advised for Italian nationals that want something different form the usual angiographies.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ but good quality to give you a brief idea
*by M***) on 18 June 2017*

Quite expensive for a fairly short book, but good quality to give you a brief idea. Nevertheless, you wouldn't get much considering how diverse the histories of the different parts of Italy are. This is, however, a good overview. It also gives the reader an idea to the current fiscal problems in Italy and its origins.

## Frequently Bought Together

- A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories)
- The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
- The Italians

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*Last updated: 2026-08-19*