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HS 360 Modern Italy

This course covers the dramatic history of modern Italy, including the wars of national unification, rise of fascism, disastrous defeat in World War II, rise of the mafia, surge of political terrorism in the sixties and seventies, recent economic prosperity, the current dilemmas caused by illegal immigration, and the sudden emergence of a multicultural society since the 1980s, all in international context.