Format:
1 Online-Ressource (482 pages)
Edition:
4th ed
ISBN:
9780786727513
Content:
Spans three centuries of Italian history, weaving together the country's social, political, and economic developments and orienting them within the larger framework of European history
Content:
Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Setting -- Introduction: From "School of Europe" to Conquered Land -- Part I: Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy -- 1 The Italian Enlightenment -- 2 Italy and the French Revolution -- 3 The First War for Italian Unity -- Part II: Restoration Italy -- 4 A "Geographical Expression" -- 5 Failed Revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s -- Part III: The Risorgimento -- 6 Three Models for Unification -- 7 The Revolutions of 1848: The Great Shakeout -- 8 Cavour and the Piedmontese Solution -- Part IV: The "Age of Prose" -- 9 Cavour's Heirs: The "Right" Reigns -- 10 Two "Parliamentary Dictators" -- 11 Social and Economic Dilemmas -- 12 The Rise of Socialism and the Giolittian Era -- Part V: War and Fascism -- 13 The Culture of the New Italy -- 14 World War I and the Red Biennium -- 15 The Rise of Fascism -- 16 Mussolini's Italy -- 17 World War II and the Resistance -- Part VI: The Republic -- 18 The Structure of Postwar Italy -- 19 Postwar Politics: "Imperfect Bipolarism" -- 20 The Economic Miracle and Its Effects -- 21 A Style for the Republic -- 22 The "Bloodless Revolution" -- 23 The Berlusconi Phenomenon -- Bibliographical Essay -- About the Book and Author -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813344133
Additional Edition:
Print version DiScala, Spencer M Italy : From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present, Fourth Edition Boulder : Westview Press,c2008 ISBN 9780813344133
Language:
English
