The Italian Risorgimento (Seminar Studies) [2 ed.] 1138137073, 9781138137073


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Table of contents :
Cover
The Italian Risorgimento
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Who’s Who
Glossary
Maps
Part One Background
1 Introduction
Part Two Descriptive Analysis
2 The Impact of France
The ‘Jacobin Triennium’
Empire and Land
The Results of French Rule
3 The Restoration States
The Settlement of Vienna
The Italian Regimes
The French Legacy: Administration and the Army
4 Restoration: Society and Economy
The Politics of Land
Social Change
Trade and Industry
5 Plots and Patriots
Secret Societies and Insurrections
Mazzini and ‘Young Italy’
‘Moderate’ Patriotism
6 The Revolutions of 1848
A Time for Constitutions
Insurrections and War
The Time of the ‘Democrats’
The Revolution that Failed
7 The ‘Decade of Preparation’, 1849–59
The New Restoration
Constitutional Piedmont
Cavour and Foreign Policy
8 The Unification of Italy, 1859–61
The War of 1859
Central Italy
Garibaldi and the South
Crossing the Rubicon
9 United at Last?
More to Come
Piedmontization All Round
The Southern Question
One and Indivisible
Part Three Assessment
10 Conclusion
Part Four Documents
1 How the Future of Central Italy Was Decided in 1815
2 Carlo Cattaneo Celebrates his Native Lombardy
3 Mazzini Complains of being Misunderstood
4 Mazzini Fails to Impress
5 Massimo d’Azeglio, Artist, Novelist and Politician, Recalls the Early 1830s in Milan
6 Prince Metternich Foresees Trouble Ahead
7 The Grand Duke of Tuscany Decides on War
8 The Navy Relies on Patriotism
9 Piedmont Makes Overtures to France
10 Radetzky’s Revenge
11 The Milanese ‘Democrat’ Giorgio Pallavicino Changes his Mind
12 The Emperor Napoleon III Plans the Future of Italy
13 Napoleon III and Cavour Plan the War of 1859
14 King Victor Emanuel Speaks from the Throne
15 The Austrians Fall into the Trap
16 The British Worry about French Aggrandizement
17 Garibaldi the Hero
18 Cavour’s Reaction to Garibaldi’s Sicilian Expedition
19 Cavour and the Kingdom of Naples
20 The King Meets Garibaldi – and a Northerner Meets the South
21 A ‘Democrat’ Reflects on Cavour
22 Garibaldi Fails to take Rome
23 The Piedmontese Army Roots Out Brigands
Further Reading
References
Index
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The Italian Risorgimento

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The Italian Risorgimento Second edition

Martin Clark

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