The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy

Preface Maps Introduction 1. The beginning of the Risorgimento, 1748-1815 2. From the Restoration to 1832 3. Charles Albert, Mazzini and the Moderates, 1832-46 4.The artistic and literary Risorgimento and the questione della lingua 5. The national revolution of 1848-49 6. Reconstruction and transformation in the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1849-56 7. Cavour's foreign policy, Garibaldi's initiative and national unification, 1855-61 8. Women and the Risorgimento 9. Venice, the 'Roman Question' and the Brigands, 1862-70 10. Free trade, globalization and the audit of unification, 1863-76 Epiloge Documents 1. Linguistic and cultural nationalism 2. Enlightened despotism 3. The Jacobin republics and the Napoleonic experience 4. The first calls for national unity 5. The Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 6. Restoration Italy 7. Piedmontese policy and the Treaty of Vienna 8. The liberalism of the emigres: Uglo Foscolo and Giuseppe Pecchio 9. Buonarroti's activities 10. The new King of the Two Sicilies states his principles of government, 1830 11. Mazzini's programme 12. Gioberti's 'philosophy' 13. An English tourist comments on the cultural contrasts between regions in Italy in 1844-45 14. The ancien regime loses its nerve 15. The' Forty-Eight' in Rome 16. The 'Forty-Eight' in Naples 17. The Piedmontese constitution (1848) and the Austrian reactions 18. Plombieres 19. The Tuscan revolution of 1859 20. Cavour and Garibaldi in 1860 21. 'A free Church in a free State' and the liberal approach to the Roman Question 22. Brigands, railways and repression in the South 23. Women and the Risorgimento Chronology Index

Autorentext
Derek Beales, Eugenio F. Biagini

Klappentext
`Of real assistance to those interested in Italian unification. History The new edition of this major work on nineteenth-century Italy has been thoroughly rewritten in the light of the scholarship of recent decades. `The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, the Risorgimento, and the unification of Italy in 1859-71. In this new edition the rise of liberal and national attitudes in the various states of Italy is discussed in the context of the literary, cultural, religious and political history of Europe during the period. New chapters have been included on the development of the Italian language and the role of women. Further new chapters cover the last stage of unification and describe how the new Kingdom of Italy established itself down to 1876. `The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy combines an expanded selection of original documents with narrative in a clear structure in order to make this complex period accessible. Derek Beales is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge. Eugenio Biagini is Reader in Modern British and European History, University of Cambridge.

Zusammenfassung
This 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.

Inhalt
Preface. Maps. Introduction. 1. The beginning of the Risorgimento, 1748-1815. 2. From the Restoration to 1832. 3. Charles Albert, Mazzini and the Moderates, 1832-46. 4.The artistic and literary Risorgimento and the questione della lingua. 5. The national revolution of 1848-49. 6. Reconstruction and transformation in the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1849-56. 7. Cavour's foreign policy, Garibaldi's initiative and national unification, 1855-61. 8. Women and the Risorgimento. 9. Venice, the 'Roman Question' and the Brigands, 1862-70. 10. Free trade, globalization and the audit of unification, 1863-76. Epilogue. Documents. Index.

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