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Author Di Scala, Spencer.

Title Italy from Revolution to Republic : 1700 to the present / Spencer M. Di Scala.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2004]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  945 D611I    Check Shelf
Edition Third edition.
Description xxvii, 492 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: From "school of Europe" to conquered land -- Enlightenment and French revolutionary Italy -- The Italian enlightenment -- Italy and the French Revolution -- The first war for Italian unity -- Restoration Italy -- A "geographical expression" -- Failed revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s -- The Risorgimento -- Three models for unification -- Revolutions of 1848: The great shakeout -- Cavour and the Piedmontese solution -- The "age of prose" -- Cavour's heirs: The "right" reigns -- Two "parliamentary dictators" -- Social and economic dilemmas -- The rise of socialism and the Giolittian era -- War and fascism -- The culture of the new Italy -- World War I and the Red Biennium -- The rise of fascism -- Mussolini's Italy -- World War II and the resistance -- The Republic -- The structure of postwar Italy -- Postwar politics: "Imperfect bipolarism" -- The economic miracle and its effects -- A style for the republic -- The "bloodless revolution" -- The Berlusconi phenomenon.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-466) and index.
Subject Italy -- History -- 18th century.
Italy -- History -- 19th century.
Italy -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0813341760
9780813341767
0813341779
9780813341774
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