Title: Italy; a modern history.
Authors: Mack Smith, Denis, 1920-2017.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Year: 1959
Subjects: Italy History.
Abstract: The author explains why the cradle of western civilization, which has assimilated so many barbarians in its time, endured the tyrant Mussolini and a sack worse than any in its past. He shows how the peasantry and the clergy were at once actors and pawns in the drama of Italy's history, and how the defects in her society led to the internal strife she knows today.
Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Italy before 1861 -- The "geographical expression" -- The idea of national unity -- Mazzini, Garibaldi, and the revolutionaries -- Cavour and the expansion of Piedmont -- The political and economic scene about 1861 -- The constitution, the king, and parliament -- The social hierarchy -- Agriculture and industry -- Immediate political problems -- The first decade, 1861-1871 -- Ricasoli, Rattazzi, and Minghetti, 1861-1865 -- Counterrevolution and Brigandage, 1860-1865 -- The war for Venice, 1866 -- Financial difficulties and other problems, 1866-1867 -- The capture of Rome -- The nation asserts itself, 1870-1882 -- The last years of the right, 1870-1876 -- Depretis and transformism, 1807-1880 -- Foreign policy, 1860-1882 -- Colonial enterprise, 1860-1882 -- The troubled period of Crispi, 1880-1893 -- Depretis and Crispi, 1880-1890 -- Irredentism and nationalist fervor -- Agriculture and industry about 1880 -- The tariff war with France, 1887-1892 --^