| Description |
xxiii, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 588-625) and index. |
| Contents |
Awakening, 1796-1815 -- Deliverance, 1796-9 -- Searching for the nation's soul -- Conspiracy and resistance -- Preaching, 1815-46 -- Restoration, romanticism and revolt, 1815-30 -- Fractured past and fractured present -- Apostles and martyrs: Mazzini and the democrats, 1830-44 -- Educators and reformers: the moderates -- Poetry, 1846-60 -- Revolution, 1846-9 -- Piedmont and Cavour -- Unity, 1858-60 -- Prose, 1861-87 -- The new state -- The road to Rome, 1861-70 -- The threat from the south, 1870-85 -- National education -- Sources of authority: king, church and parliament, 1870-87 -- War, 1887-1918 -- Francesco Crispi and the 'New European Order', 1887-91 -- The Fin de Siècle crisis -- Rival religions: socialism and catholicism -- Nationalism -- The great war, 1915-18 -- Fascism, 1919-43 -- Civil War and the advent of fascism, 1919-22 -- The establishment of a dictatorship, 1922-5 -- The fascist ethical state -- Community of believers -- A place in the sun, 1929-36 -- Into the Abyss, 1936-43 -- Parties -- The foundations of the republic, 1943-57 -- The economic miracle, 1958-75 -- Towards the 'second republic.' |
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Italy -- History -- 1789-1870.
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Italy -- History -- 1870-1914.
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Italy -- History -- 1914-1945.
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Italy -- History -- 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780618353675 |
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0618353674 |
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