Introduction: From School of Europe to Conquered Land part one -Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy * 1 The Italian Enlightenment * * 2 Italy and the French Revolution * 3 The First War for Italian Unity part two Restoration Italy * 4 A Geographical Expression * * 5 Failed Revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s part three | The Risorgimento * 6 Three Models for Unification * * 7 Revolutions of 1848: The Great Shakeout * * 8 Cavour and the Piedmontese Solution part four | The Age of Prose * 9 Cavours Heirs: The Right Reigns * * 10 Two Parliamentary Dictators * * 11 Social and Economic Dilemmas * * 12 The Rise of Socialism and the Giolittian Era part five War and Fascism * 13 The Culture of the New Italy * * 14 World War I and the Red Biennium * 15 The Rise of Fascism * * 16 Mussolinis Italy * * 17 World War II and the Resistance part six The Republic * 18 The Structure of Postwar Italy * * 19 Postwar Politics: Imperfect Bipolarism * 20 The Economic Miracle and Its Effects * * 21 A Style for the Republic * * 22 The Bloodless Revolution * 23 The Berlusconi Phenomenon
Spencer M. Di Scala is Professor of History and History Graduate Program Director at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on Italian and European history, politics, and culture serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals and won the UCEA's 2007 National Award for excellence in teaching.
"This is simply the best history of modern Italy. Students regularly praise it in my course evaluations. Spencer Di Scala's prose is crisp, his scope comprehensive, his analysis lucid, and his judgment wise. The book's special strengths are political, social, and cultural history, international context, and a rich bibliographical essay for further studies. A masterful work by a master historian and teacher." -John Alcorn, Trinity College "Spencer Di Scala's book is a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible survey of three centuries of Italian history, placed in a larger European context. With helpful maps, pithy biographies and an unmatched bibliographical essay, it is perhaps the best introductory text for students and stimulating for scholars as well. From the Enlightenment to the phenomenon that is Silvio Berlusconi, updated to address Italy's most pressing contemporary problems and paradoxes, it is an indispensable work." -Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University "Spencer Di Scala's Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present improves with every edition, with more portaits of representative Italians and by extending its scope well-into the twenty-first century. Well organized and elegantly written, it serves as an ideal introduction to the serious study of modern Italy." -Roy Palmer Domenico, University of Scranton
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