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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454868003321

Autore

De Grand Alexander J. <1938->

Titolo

The hunchback's tailor [[electronic resource] ] : Giovanni Giolitti and liberal Italy from the challenge of mass politics to the rise of fascism, 1882-1922 / / Alexander De Grand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001

ISBN

0-313-00137-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Italian and Italian American studies, , 1530-7263

Disciplina

945.09

Soggetti

Liberalism - Italy - History - 19th century

Liberalism - Italy - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Italy Politics and government 1870-1914

Italy Politics and government 1914-1922

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]- 283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword by Spencer M Di Scala; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Apprenticeship of a Statesman 1842 1892; Chapter 2 A Disastrous Beginning: The Presidency of the Council of Ministers 1892 1893; Chapter 3 Into the Wilderness Giolitti in Opposition 1894 1901; Chapter 4 The Zanardelli Giolitti Government 1901 1903; Chapter 5 Giolitti's Second Ministry Doing It Right 1903 1905; Chapter 6 The Long Ministry, 1906-1909: The Heyday of the Giolittian System; Chapter 7 Domestic Reform and War 1910 1914; Chapter 8 A Second Political Exile 1914 1920

Chapter 9 Giolitti and the Crisis of the Liberal State 1920 1928Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work examines the political life of Italy's most notable prime minister after Cavour. Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.