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Making Liberalism Work: The Italian Experience, 1860-1914: Italian and Italian American Studies

Autor Susan A. Ashley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 aug 2003 – vârsta până la 17 ani
By most accounts, Italian-style liberalism failed. Explanations of its failure vary from economic backwardness or a political culture shaped by autocracy to claims that liberals ruined their chances by pursuing nothing but narrow middle class interests. This study examines the liberal record to weigh the accuracy of these approaches. Ashley focuses on three controversial issues: public works, social reform, and public order. The railroads would test liberal commitment to laissez-faire, labor laws their pledge to protect all citizens, and dissent their allegiance to individual rights. In each case, liberals compromised their principles. What they decided defined the Italian variant of liberalism by transforming it from a doctrine to concrete practices and political behaviors.Particularly after 1890, liberals increasingly made empiricism the primary justification for policy and dismissed abstract principles as beneath notice. This shift helps explain why liberalism lost authority and credibility as a set of moral imperatives and as a coherent world view in Italy, as well as why it failed to offer most Italians a compelling alternative to either Socialsim or Fascism. Examining what liberals said and did, however, does not entirely support the despairing judgment of so many historians. Italian liberals managed to build a liberal state and to make it function against intransigent obstacles.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275980627
ISBN-10: 0275980626
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Italian and Italian American Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Susan A. Ashley is professor of history at Colorado College. She received her BA from Carleton College and her MA, European Institute Certificate, and PhD from Columbia University.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGoverning ItalyPrivate Enterprise and Public WorksPrivate Interests and the Public GoodThe State and Social JusticeFinding Ways to ReformLaw and OrderLiberty in LawLiberalism the Italian WayEpilogue: Liberalism and FascismBibliography

Recenzii

Ashley does a good job of analyzing changing policies and the accompanying arguments deployed in parliamentary debates and the press. She shows that vigorous debates took place about major policy changes that conflicted with preexisting sets of liberal beliefs.
Ashley's study is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of Italian liberalism after 1860.
[A]shley provides an excellent study of the interplay between ideology and legislative solutions to real problems during the neglected decades from 1870 to 1900. . . . [S]tudents of European liberalism will profit from it.