The northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of cas

The author provides a new, systematic and interdisciplinary approach that reinterprets the premises behind Italy's imagined geography or modernity."--Jacket.

In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant

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