This collection of essays brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism. These scholars suggest that the South was not a 'backward' region, but a combination of regions in which different social and economic patterns had evolved in response to the prevailing conditions within the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to examine not only the concrete history of the South, but also the discourses and images in which it has been framed. It is the first publication in English devoted to the new history of Southern Italy, and brings together many of the leading figures in the revisionist movement, as well as some of their critics.
is Professor of Italian Cultural History, University College London. He is editor, with Jonathan Morris, of The New History of the Italian South: The Mezzogiorno Revisited (UEP, 1997) and, with D. Forgacs, of Italian Cultural Studies (OUP, 1996).
Chronology of events in southern Italy, 1799-1915
Challenging Meridionalismo - constructing a new history for southern Italy
Jonathan Morris
The demise of Latifondismo
Marta Petrusewocz
Local power in southern Italy
Paolo Pezzino
The southern metropolis - redistributive circuits in 19th-century Naples
Paolo Marcy
Images of the south - the Mezzogiorno as seen by insiders and outsiders
Gabriella Gribaudi
Stereotypes of the Italian south, 1860-1900
John Dickie
The nationalism of politics and the politicization of the nation in liberal Italy
Fulvio Cammarano
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