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Record Nr.

UNISA996248333903316

Autore

Di Scala Spencer

Titolo

Italy : from revolution to republic, 1700 to the present / / Spencer M. Di Scala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo. : , : Westview Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-429-97473-6

0-429-49510-2

0-8133-3469-1

1-283-09440-1

9786613094407

0-7867-2751-9

Edizione

[4th edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Disciplina

945

Soggetti

Italy History

Italy History 18th century

Italy History 19th century

Italy History 20th century

Italy History 21st century

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. 387-458) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Setting; Introduction: From "School of Europe" to Conquered Land; Part I: Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy; 1 The Italian Enlightenment; 2 Italy and the French Revolution; 3 The First War for Italian Unity; Part II: Restoration Italy; 4 A "Geographical Expression"; 5 Failed Revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s; Part III: The Risorgimento; 6 Three Models for Unification; 7 The Revolutions of 1848: The Great Shakeout; 8 Cavour and the Piedmontese Solution; Part IV: The "Age of Prose"; 9 Cavour's Heirs: The "Right" Reigns

10 Two "Parliamentary Dictators"11 Social and Economic Dilemmas; 12 The Rise of Socialism and the Giolittian Era; Part V: War and Fascism; 13 The Culture of the New Italy; 14 World War I and the Red Biennium; 15 The Rise of Fascism; 16 Mussolini's Italy; 17 World War II and the Resistance; Part VI: The Republic; 18 The Structure of Postwar Italy; 19



Postwar Politics: "Imperfect Bipolarism"; 20 The Economic Miracle and Its Effects; 21 A Style for the Republic; 22 The "Bloodless Revolution"; 23 The Berlusconi Phenomenon; Bibliographical Essay; About the Book and Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Spans three centuries of Italian history, weaving together the country's social, political, and economic developments and orienting them within the larger framework of European history.