Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
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The League and Italy's History
In two thousand and 13 the league ceased to be a party that was advocating for the separation of the north ar of italy from m the south. At that point in time they started to be nationalist, a party that wanted to appeal to a national electorate with references to the past. The roman empire was central to the crafting, the moulding of four kyoppositions. A one between military force an weakness, greatness and decadence,. multi culturality and cultural a homogeneity. And then these binaries were used to shapea create myths of origin, of declining, collapse and of resistance.
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