Title Italy : a modern history

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1959]

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Description xi, 508 pages, xxviii : map. ; 24 cm Series The University of Michigan history of the modern world University of Michigan history of the modern world University of Michigan history of the modern world. Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Italy before 1861 -- The "geographical expression" -- The idea of national unity -- Mazzini, Garibaldi, and the revolutionaries -- Cavour and the expansion of Piedmont -- The political and economic scene about 1861 -- The constitution, the king, and parliament -- The social hierarchy -- Agriculture and industry -- Immediate political problems -- The first decade, 1861-1871 -- Ricasoli, Rattazzi, and Minghetti, 1861-1865 -- Counterrevolution and Brigandage, 1860-1865 -- The war for Venice, 1866 -- Financial difficulties and other problems, 1866-1867 -- The capture of Rome -- The nation asserts itself, 1870-1882 -- The last years of the right, 1870-1876 -- Depretis and transformism, 1807-1880 -- Foreign policy, 1860-1882 -- Colonial enterprise, 1860-1882 -- The troubled period of Crispi, 1880-1893 -- Depretis and Crispi, 1880-1890 -- Irredentism and nationalist fervor -- Agriculture and industry about 1880 -- The tariff war with France, 1887-1892 -- Corruption and the banks, 1889-1893 -- colonial defeat and political reaction, 1893-1900 -- Social unrest and Crispi's last ministry -- The Ethiopian war and the eclipse of Crispi -- Parliamentary government endangered, 1896-1900 -- Defects in the constitution -- Giolitti and liberal reform, 1900-1911 -- Liberal government resumed, 1900-1904 -- Clerical and radical co-operation, 1904-1906 -- The "southern problem" and emigration -- Economic and cultural revival -- The last years of liberal reform, 1909-1911 -- The onset of war -- The German alliance, 1896-1911 -- The Libyan war, 1911-1912 -- Giolitti's system collapses, 1912-1914 -- Italy remains neutral, 1914 -- Intervention against Austria, 1915 -- The war and its aftermath, 1915-1922 -- The conduct of war, 1915-1918 -- The peace settlement, 1918-1920 -- New political currents, 1919 -- Nitti and the rape of Fiume, 1919-1920 -- Giolitti and the suicide of liberalism, 1920-1921 -- Bonomi and Facta, 1921-1922 -- Mussolini's revolution, 1922-1925 -- Italy on the eve, summer 1922 -- The march on Rome, October 26-30, 1922 -- Dictatorship emerges, 1922-1924 -- The defeat of parliament and press, 1924-1925 -- The theory and practice of fascism -- The machinery and personnel of fascism -- Economic and social policy -- Fascist doctrine -- The standardization of culture -- Persecution and its effects -- Surviving institutions -- Decline and fall of a Roman empire -- Foreign policy, 1922-1936 -- Lack of restraint, 1936-1938 -- The drift toward war, 1938-1940 -- Military and political defeat, 1940-1943 -- Liberation, 1943-1945 Summary The author explains why the cradle of western civilization, which has assimilated so many barbarians in its time, endured the tyrant Mussolini and a sack worse than any in its past. He shows how the peasantry and the clergy were at once actors and pawns in the drama of Italy's history, and how the defects in her society led to the internal strife she knows today Notes Includes index Bibliography "Suggested readings": pages [501]-508 SUBJECT Italy -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068959 Italy -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068972 Italy -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068936 LC no. 59062503

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