Italy's Social Revolution

MARIA SOPHIE QUINE is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies.

• Abbreviations Preface PART I: THE SOCIAL MISSION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBERALISM Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and Promise of Good Government Reform and the Risorgimento State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862-1890 PART II: STATE WELFARE UIN THE AGE OF THE MASSES The Rise of Giolitti's Insurer State Fascism's New Deal: Social Insurance under a Totalitarian State Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy PART III: THE PROBLEM OF CHILD ABANDONMENT FROM LIBERALISM TO FASCISM Introduction: Charity, the State, and Compassion: The Modernization of Social Values Outcast Infants and the Liberal State Religion, Science, and Beneficence The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927-1938 An Italian Social Revolution? Bibliography Index

'Anyone interested in the social history of the late liberal and fascist periods should find this study well worth reading.' - Italian Politics & Society