Introducing modern Italian culture / Zygmunt G. Barański
The notion of Italy / John Dickie
Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day / Anna Cento Bull
Questions of language / Brian Richardson
Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy / David Ward
Catholicism / Percy Allum
Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' / Robert S. Dombroski
Other voices : contesting the status quo / Sharon Wood, Joseph Farrell
Narratives of self and society / Gian-Paolo Biasin
Searching for new languages : modern Italian poetry / Shirley W. Vinall, Tom O'Neill
Drama : realism, identity and reality on stage / Ann Laura Lepschy
Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella
Art in modern Italy : from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia / Eugenia Paulicelli
A modern identity for a new nation : design in Italy since 1860 / Penny Sparke
Fashion : narration and nation / Eugenia Paulicelli
The media / Christopher Wagstaff
Since Verdi : Italian serious music 1860-1995 / John C.G. Waterhouse
Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s / Alessandro Carrera
Epilogue : Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium? / Rebecca J. West.