Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Maps ix
• Preface to the Second Edition xi
• Preface xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• The Setting xvii
• Introduction: from "School of Europe" to Conquered Land xxi
• Part One - Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy 1
• 1 - The Italian Enlightenment 3
• 2 - Italy and the French Revolution 20
• 3 - The First War for Italian Unity 34
• Part Two - Restoration Italy 41
• 4 - A Geographical Expression"" 43
• 5 - Failed Revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s 52
• Part Three - The Risorgimento 61
• 6 - Three Models for Unification 63
• 7 - Revolutions of 1848: The Great Shakeout 75
• 8 - Cavour and the Piedmontese Solution 90
• Part Four - The Age of Prose"" 119
• 9 - Cavours Heirs: The Right" Reigns" 121
• 10 - Two Parliamentary Dictators."" 130
• 11 - Social and Economic Dilemmas 139
• 12 - The Rise of Socialism and the Giolittian Era 157
• Part Five - War and Fascism 177
• 13 - The Culture of the New Italy 179
• 14 - World War I and the Red Biennium 193
• 15 - The Rise of Fascism 211
• 16 - Mussolinis Italy 228
• 17 - World War II and the Resistance 255
• Part Six - The Republic 275
• 18 - The Structure of Postwar Italy 277
• 19 - Postwar Politics: Imperfect Bipolarism"" 289
• 20 - The Economic Miracle and Its Effects 306
• 21 - A New Era? 326
• Bibliographical Essay 347
• About the Book and Author 407
• Index 409

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