Robert LUMLEY and Jonathan MORRIS, editors. *The New History of the Italian South.
The Mezzogiorno Revisited.* Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1997. xvi + 160 pp.
ISBN 0 85989 506 8
Price in the UK: GBP 10.99
Available in the United Kingdom through: University of Exeter Press, Reed Hall,
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The book is available in North America through Northwestern University Press, and
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The first English-language publication dealing with the revisionist history of the
Mezzogiorno, the book's contributors provide much information regarding not only
how the South evolved in response to conditions established during the time of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, but also how its discourses and images have been
framed.
In addition to a detailed glossary and chronology of events in southern Italy from
1799 to 1915, the book contains seven articles, as follows:
Jonathan Morris, 'Challenging *Meridionalismo*: Constructing a new history for
southern Italy' (1-19)
Marta Petrusewicz, 'The demise of *latisfondismo*' (20-41)
Paolo Pezzino, 'Local power in southern Italy' (42-58)
Paolo Macry, 'The southern metropolis: Redistributive circuits in
nineteenth-century Naples' (59-82)
Gabriella Gribaudi, 'Images of the south: The *Mezzogiorno* as seen by insiders and
outsiders' (83-113)
John Dickie, 'Stereotypes of the Italian south, 1860-1900' (114-147)
Fulvio Cammarano, 'The nationalization of politics and the politicization of the
nation in liberal Italy' (148-155)
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