Title: The Risorgimento and the unification of Italy /
Authors: Beales, Derek Edward Dawson.; Biagini, Eugenio F.
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Italy History; Italy Politics and government
Abstract: This revision of the leading history of mid-19th century Italy introduces the relationship between the Italian national movement, the Risorgimento and the Italian unification, largely achieved in 1859-60.
Contents: Problems and interpretations -- Nationalism, reformism, republicanism, democracy and liberalism -- The beginning of the Risorgimento, 1748-1815 -- From the restoration to 1832 -- Charles Albert, Mazzini and the Moderates, 1832-46 -- The artistic and literary Risorgimento and the questione della lingua -- The national revolution of 1848-49 -- Reconstruction and transformation in the kingdom of Sardinia, 1849-56 -- Cavour's foreign policy, Garibaldi's initiative and national unification, 1855-59 -- Women and the Risorgimento -- Venice, the 'Roman Question' and the brigands, 1862-70 -- Free trade, globalization and the audit of unification, 1863-76 -- Epilogue.