Concise History of Italy

Name: Concise History of Italy
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ISBN: 9780521408486

ISBN-10: 0521408482

ISBN-13: 9780521408486

Edition: 1994

Authors: Christopher Duggan

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Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day, but focuses on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a nation state during the past two centuries. The opening chapters consider the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and survey the long centuries of political fragmentation in the peninsula since the sixth century. It was this legacy of fragmentation that Italy's new rulers had to strive to overcome when the country became united, more by accident than design, in 1859-61.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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



List of illustrations


List of tables


Preface


Introduction



The geographical determinants of disunity



Disunity and conflict: from the Romans to the renaissance, 400-1849



Stagnation and reform, 1494-1789



The emergence of the national question, 1789-1849



Italy united



The liberal state and the social question, 1870-1900



Giolitti, the first world war, and the rise of fascism



Fascism



The republic


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