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| Description | | - The first volume (along with Italy Since 1945 by Patrick McCarthy) of the major new Short Oxford History of Italy series
- This is the most extensively studied period of post-classical Italian history in universities here and abroad: one of the key examples of 19th Century nation-making
- Chapters linked together by a substantial introduction and conclusion, by internal cross-references
- Includes detailed chronology, a glossary of terms, names of major authors, further reading as well as a comprehensive index
- Not a narrative history (though a broad framework of events emerges), but an explicit thematical approach in a series of analytical surveys of society, politics, economics, culture, etc., each by a leading scholar at the cutting edge of historiography
- The contributors are all top names in the field and together make up an enterprising and formidable volume (series editor is Professor John Davis, Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History in the University of Connecticut)
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The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each period, will present the most recent historical perspectives on Italian history. This means setting Italian history in the broader context of European history as a whole. It also means questioning accepted interpretations of Italian history in
each of these periods and, in particular, the idea that Italy's history has been significantly different from that of the rest of Europe. Each volume will emphasise how developments in Italy in each period are best understood as variants on broader European patterns of political, economic social and cultural change.
This volume covers the period from the French Revolution to the end of the
Nineteenth Century. Consisting of nine essays written by leading British and American historians, the volume shows how Italy's unexpected political unification and independence were inseparable from the impact of the broader processes of modernisation that were changing the face of Europe and the fabric of European society. The social and political tensions that fuelled the struggles for
independence were rooted in Italy's difficult modernisation, which continued thereafter to threaten the consolidation of the new Italian state. But Italy's difficult modernisation did not preclude real change, and although Italy entered the twentieth century as a highly imperfect democracy it was not noticeably more imperfect, illiberal or divided than its nineteenth century European
counter-parts, nor did the new challenges posed by the rise of mass society make fascism an inevitable outcome of the Risorgimento.
Italy in the Nineteenth Century
provides both the general and specialist reader with a critical but concise introduction to the most recent historical debates and perspectives.
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Readership: Main contextual volume for students of 19th Century Italian History. Main and supplementary text for undergraduate students and academics in the UK and US on modern European history courses, 19th Century European History, Italian History; contextual material for those on history of art, and cultural studies courses; the general reader interested in the modernization of Italy.
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Introduction
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John A.Davis
Chapter One: From the French Revolution to Napoleon
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Alexander Grab
Chapter Two: The Age of the Restoration
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David Laven
Chapter Three: Giuseppe Mazzini and his Opponents
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Roland Sarti
Chapter Four: Cavour and Piedmont
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Anthony Cardoza
Chapter Five: Garibaldi and the South
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Lucy Riall
Chapter Six: Politics in the Era of Depretis and Crispi: 1870-96
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Christopher Duggan
Chapter Seven: Religion and Society 1789-1892
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David I Kertzer
Chapter Eight: Culture and High Society 1796-1896
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Ray Grew
Chapter Nine: Economy, Society, and the State
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John A. Davis
Further Reading
Chronology
Glossary
Maps
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by John A. Davis, Emilian Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut
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