Emanuela Scarpellini is Professor of Modern History at the University of Milan. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University, and has also been a Visiting Professor at both Stanford and Georgetown universities.

• PART I: LIBERAL ITALY; PART II: FASCISM; PART III: THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE; PART IV: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

This is an ambitious book that fills a large gap in the English-language literature on modern Italy and that demonstrates with panache and sensitivity that the history of consumption is an inescapable entryway into the complexities of the modern condition.

Emanuela Scarpellini is Professor of Modern History at the University of Milan. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University, and has also been a Visiting Professor at both Stanford and Georgetown universities.

• PART I: LIBERAL ITALY; PART II: FASCISM; PART III: THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE; PART IV: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

This is an ambitious book that fills a large gap in the English-language literature on modern Italy and that demonstrates with panache and sensitivity that the history of consumption is an inescapable entryway into the complexities of the modern condition.

Emanuela Scarpellini is Professor of Modern History at the University of Milan. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University, and has also been a Visiting Professor at both Stanford and Georgetown universities.

• PART I: LIBERAL ITALY; PART II: FASCISM; PART III: THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE; PART IV: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

This is an ambitious book that fills a large gap in the English-language literature on modern Italy and that demonstrates with panache and sensitivity that the history of consumption is an inescapable entryway into the complexities of the modern condition.