ITALY - from revolution to republic - 1700 to the present

Boulder / San Francisco / Oxford: Westview Press, 1995. Cover design: D. Gail Renlund. Cover art: S. Fergola: 'Inaugurazione della Strada Ferrata Napoli-Portici, 1840'. Introduction: From 'School of Europe' to conquered land. Contents: I). Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy. 1). The Italian enlichtenment. 2). Italy and the French revolution. 3). The first war for Italian unity. II). Restoration Italy. 4). 'Geographica, expression'. 5). Failed revolutions: the 1820s and 1830s. III). The Risorgimento. 6). Three models for unification. 7). Revolutions of 1848: the great shakeout. 8). Cavour and the Piedmontese solution. 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. 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. VI). The republic.18). The structure of postwar Italy. 19). Postwar politics: 'Imperfect bipolarism'. 20). The economic miracle and its effects. 21). Conclusions: Where is Italy headed? With bibliographical essay and index. XXIII + 416 pag. . 1st edition. Paperback. Fine copy.. 23,5cmx15,5cm.