The Making of Italy, 17961866 [Paperback]

First published in 1968, this standard text on Italian nineteenth-century history is reissued, with a new preface, in hardcover and paperback, to meet a continuing demand.Maps - Preface to the 1987 Reissue - Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Napoleonic Period, 1796-1815 - The Restoration, 1815-20 - The Revolutionaries, 1820-32 - Various Views among the Moderates, 1831-43 - Observations on Society and the Economy, 1844-6 - Agitation and Subversion, 1845-8 - The Revolution of 1848 - The Wars of 1848 and 1849 - Victor Emmanuel, Azeglio and Cavour, 1849-52 - Constitutional Difficulties and the Crimean War - A Bid for British Support, 1856 - Mazzini and the National Society - The Press Laws and Orsini, 1857-8 - Plombieres and Negotiations with France, 1858 - How Cavour Brought about War in 1859 - The Acquisition of Lombardy - Tuscany, the Romagna and the Duchies - Garibaldi Conquers Naples and Sicily - The Unification of North and South - Cavour's Final Problems, 1860-61 - Italy After Cavour - The Southern Problem - War, Defeat and the Acquisition of Venice, 1866 - Rome - General Bibliography - Index