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Italy : from revolution to republic, 1700 to the present / Spencer M. Di Scala.
- Title
- Italy : from revolution to republic, 1700 to the present / Spencer M. Di Scala.
- Author
- Di Scala, Spencer
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 426 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In this revised study of the last three centuries of Italian history, the author considers significant developments since the first edition was published. These include the end of the Berlusconi government and the re-emergence of the Italian Communist Party in the guise of the PDS.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Bibliographical essay": p. 347-405.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- from school of Europe to conquered land. Part 1 Enlightenment and French-Revolutionary Italy; the Italian Enlightenment; Italy and the French Revolution; the first war for Italian unity. Part 2 Restoration Italy: a geographical expression; failed revolutions -- the 1820s and 1830s. Part 3 The Risorgimento: three models for unification; revolutions of 1848 -- the great shake-out; Cavour and the Piedmontese solution. Part 4 The age of prose: Cavour's heirs -- the Right reigns; two parliamentary dictators; social and economic dilemmas; the rise of socialism and the Giolittian era. Part 5 War and fascism: the culture of the new Italy; World War I and the Red Biennium; the rise of fascism; Mussolini's Italy; World War II and the Resistance. Part 6 The Republic: the structure of post-war Italy; post-war politics -- imperfect bipolarism; the economic miracle and its effects; a new era?
- ISBN
- 0813334691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98121339^
- OCLC
- 38539272
- SCSB-10532298
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library