Description

Photographs by Fulvio Roiter.

Every year, almost two million British visitors travel to Italy on holiday or business, but their knowledge and understanding of the fifty-six million inhabitants of this Mediterranean peninsula is conditioned by stereotype images which are frequently negative.
David Willey, the BBC's Correspondent in Rome since 1971, describes in this lively account how contemporary Italians think, live, love, work, dress, eat, laugh and have fun. He corrects what he believes to be the distorted ideas of many foreigners about Italians and explains how the mass exodus of poor and usually illiterate Italian migrants during the past century affected the nation's image abroad.
During his research for this social panorama of Italy in the nineteen-eighties, David Willey has talked to hundreds of Italians, including anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, film directors, actors and actresses, peasants, professors, captains of industry, fashion designers, students, art restorers, policemen, chefs, judges, doctors, spaghetti manufacturers, priests, nuns, mayors, millionaires and kidnap victims.
David Willey, from his unique vantage point as a foreign correspondent, disputes the widely-held view that Italy is a country eternally on the brink of political

and economic disaster and concludes that despite a social and consumer revolution which has left many Italians bewildered about their future, Italy's strong sense of continuity with her rich and culturally varied past equips her better than many more efficiently managed nations to challenge the problems facing all developed countries in the last decades of the twentieth century.
This book is published in conjunction with the ten-part BBC-Television series Italians produced by Jeremy Bennett.

Note alle condizioni del volume
Usato ottime condizioni, lievi segni di uso e del tempo. (T-CA)

Autore/i David Willey
Editore British Broadcasting Corparation Luogo London
Anno 1984 Pagine 160
Dimensioni 18x25x2 (cm) Illustrazioni ill. colori f.t. - colors ills
Legatura cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione Usato ottime condizioni - used very good
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 1300 (gr)
ISBN 0563203129 EAN-13 9780563203124