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Record Nr.

UNISA996247984103316

Autore

Davis John Anthony

Titolo

Naples and Napoleon : southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780-1860) / / John A. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-84696-8

9786610846962

0-19-955230-4

0-19-156452-4

0-19-151872-7

1-4294-9216-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

945/.7082

Soggetti

Revolutions - Italy, Southern - History - 18th century

Counterrevolutions - Italy, Southern - History - 18th century

Revolutions - Italy, Southern - History - 19th century

Counterrevolutions - Italy, Southern - History - 19th century

Italy, Southern History 1735-1848

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps; Introduction: Naples, Napoleon, and the Origins of the Two Italies; PART I: ABSOLUTIST NAPLES; 1. The Ancien ReĢgime in the South; 2. Projecting Reform; 3. Undermining the Old Order; 4. 1799: The Rise and Fall of the Republic; 5. Jacobins and Patriots; 6. The Counter-revolution; PART II: NAPOLEONIC NAPLES; 7. Naples in the Imperial Enterprise; 8. The Costs of Empire; 9. The Promise of Change; 10. A Kingdom Remodeled? The Provinces and the Capital; 11. Disorder; 12. A Kingdom Divided; PART III: RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION; 13. Losing Naples; 14. Restoration

15. Revolution Conclusion: States of Insecurity; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the European revolutions.



The book's central themes are posed by the period of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy was the Mediterranean frontier of Napoleon's continental empire. The tensions between Naples and Paris made this an important chapter in the history of that empire andrevealed the deeper contradictions on which it was founded. But the brief interlude of Napoleonic rule later came to