Force of Destiny A History of Italy since 1796

Name: Force of Destiny A History of Italy since 1796
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ISBN: 9780618353675

ISBN-10: 0618353674

ISBN-13: 9780618353675

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christopher Duggan

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A sweeping, dramatic, first-of-its-kind history of the creation of modern Italy. The birth of modern Italy was a messy affair. Inspired by a small group of writers, intellectuals, and politicians, Italy struggled in the first half of the nineteenth century to unite all Italian speakers under one rule, throwing aside a multitude of corrupt old rulers and colonial occupiers. In the midst of all this turmoil, Italian politicians felt compelled by a "force of destiny" hideously at odds with Italian reality. After immense sacrifice Italy was finally unified-and turned out to be just as impoverished, backward, and marginal as it had been before. The resentments this created fed Italys…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 688
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Preface



Awakening, 1796-1815



Deliverance, 1796-9



Searching for the Nation's Soul



Conspiracy and Resistance



Preaching, 1815-46



Restoration, Romanticism and Revolt, 1815-30



Fractured Past and Fractured Present



Apostles and Martyrs: Mazzini and the Democrats, 1830-44



Educators and Reformers: The Moderates



Poetry, 1846-60



Revolution, 1846-9



Piedmont and Cavour



Unity, 1858-60



Prose, 1861-87



The New State



The Road to Rome, 1861-70



The Threat from the South, 1870-85



National Education



Sources of Authority: King, Church and Parliament, 1870-87



War, 1887-1918



Francesco Crispi and the 'New European Order', 1887-91



The Fin de Siecle Crisis



Rival Religions: Socialism and Catholicism



Nationalism



The Great War, 1915-18



Fascism, 1919-43



Civil War and the Advent of Fascism, 1919-22



The Establishment of a Dictatorship, 1922-5



The Fascist Ethical State



Community of Believers



A Place in the Sun, 1929-36



Into the Abyss, 1936-43



Parties



The Foundations of the Republic, 1943-57



The Economic Miracle, 1958-75



Towards the 'Second Republic'


References


Index