Publication Date:
2024-04-01
Description:
South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. Despite its modest geographical size, it has come to represent a success story in the protection of ethnic minorities in Europe. When Austrian South Tyrol was given to Italy in 1919, about 200,000 German and Ladin speakers became Italian citizens overnight. Despite Italy’s attempts to Italianize the South Tyroleans, especially during the Fascist era from 1922 to 1943, they sought to maintain their traditions and language, culminating in violence in the 1960s. In 1972 South Tyrol finally gained geographical and cultural autonomy from Italy, leading to the ‘regional state’ of 2010. This book, drawing on the latest research in Italian and German, provides a fresh analysis of this dynamic and turbulent period of South Tyrolean and European history. The author provides new insights into the political and cultural evolution of the understanding of the region and the definition of its role within the European framework. In a broader sense, the study also analyses the shift in paradigms from historical nationalism to modern regionalism against the backdrop of European, global, national and local historical developments as well as the shaping of the distinct identities of its multilingual and multi-ethnic population.
Keywords:
1866
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1866–2010
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2010
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Approaches to South Tyrol
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Disquiet and Unrest, 1947-1960
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Grote
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National
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Question
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Queston
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Rage
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Regional
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South
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State
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The Regionalist Drive
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Tyrol
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Tyrolean Nationalisms before 1918
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Under Autonomy Rule
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
Language:
English
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