The History of Italy.

Cover -- THE HISTORY OF ITALY -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Timeline of Historical Events -- THE CLASSICAL PERIOD -- THE MIDDLE AGES -- RENAISSANCE ITALY -- EARLY MODERN ITALY -- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, NAPOLEONIC ERA, AND RESTORATION -- THE RISORGIMENTO AND THE CREATION OF ITALY -- THE ERA OF GIOLITTI AND WORLD WAR I -- THE FASCIST ERA AND WORLD WAR II -- THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC -- 1 An Introduction to Modern Italy -- GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES ON ITALIAN HISTORY -- HISTORICAL THEMES -- 2 Italy in the Ancient and Classical Ages -- ETRUSCAN INFLUENCE -- FORMATION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC -- WARS OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- ROMAN EXPANSION AND THE CREATION OF "ITALIA" -- EMERGING ROMAN GOVERNMENT -- ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION -- THE PUNIC WARS AND THE BUILDING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- DOMESTIC CONSEQUENCES OF EMPIRE BUILDING -- FINAL CENTURY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: CIVIL WAR AND THE RISE OF CAESAR -- THE ROMAN REVOLUTION -- AUGUSTUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRINCIPATE -- THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN DYNASTY, A.D. 14-68 -- THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY, A.D. 68-96 -- THE ANTONINE DYNASTY, A.D. 96-192: THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS AND THE PAX ROMANA -- THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY AND THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN ITALY -- THE REFORMS OF DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE -- 3 Italy in the Middle Ages, 400-1300 -- THE OSTROGOTH INVASIONS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY -- JUSTINIAN'S WARS, THE LOMBARD INVASIONS, AND THE END OF ITALIAN UNITY -- THE SOUTH UNDER BYZANTINE DOMINATION -- THE INTERVENTION OF THE FRANKS IN THE NORTH AND THE CREATION OF CAROLINGIAN ITALY -- ARAB CONQUESTS IN THE SOUTH -- THE POWER OF THE PAPACY -- THE GERMAN EMPERORS AND NORMAN DOMINANCE OF SOUTHERN ITALY -- ITALIAN COMMUNES AND THE REVIVAL OF TRADE -- THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE CHALLENGES -- 4 Renaissance Italy, 1300-1500 -- ITALIAN CITIES IN THE AGE OF DANTE -- FAMINE AND THE "BLACK DEATH".

RENAISSANCE SOCIETY IN THE ITALIAN CITY-STATES -- THE EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE -- POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER IN THE FIVE MAJOR RENAISSANCE CITY-STATES -- THE HEIGHT OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE -- THE ITALIAN LEAGUE -- THE FRENCH INVASION OF 1494, THE ITALIAN WARS, AND THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE -- 5 Early Modern Italy, 1500-1789 -- SPANISH DOMINATION -- NEW DYNAMICS IN THE ARTS AND IDEAS: MANNERISM, THE BAROQUE, AND THE ILLUMINISTI -- A HALF-CENTURY OF PEACE: REFORMS IN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS -- ITALY ON THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION -- 6 The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration of Austrian Power in Italy, 1789-1848 -- INFLUENCES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION -- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE IN ITALY -- THE SPREAD OF ITALIAN NATIONALISM -- THE IMPACT OF AUSTRIAN REACTIONARY POLICIES -- RESTORATION CULTURE AND ROMANTIC NATIONALISM -- RESTORATION SOCIETY AND THE ORIGINS OF NATIONALIST INSURRECTION -- GIUSEPPE MAZZINI AND THE DRIVE FOR A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC -- THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 IN ITALY -- 7 Unification of Italy: The Risorgimento and the "Making of Italians," 1848-1900 -- THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 AND THE ITALIAN WAR OF LIBERATION -- CAMILLO DI CAVOUR AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE PIEDMONTESE MODERATES -- THE SECOND WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1859-1860 -- VENICE, ROME, AND THE COMPLETION OF THE RISORGIMENTO -- BUILDING AN ITALIAN STATE -- THE SOUTHERN QUESTION -- THE "PARLIAMENTARY REVOLUTION" OF 1876 AND THE ERA OF TRASFORMISMO -- FRANCESCO CRISPI AND THE CRISES OF THE 1890S -- 8 The Era of Giolitti and World War I, 1900-1918 -- ECONOMIC GROWTH -- SOCIALIST GAINS -- GIOLITTI AND SOCIAL REFORM -- CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRENDS -- THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND THE WAR IN LIBYA -- THE "NEUTRALITY CRISIS" AND THE DECISION TO FIGHT -- ITALY IN WORLD WAR I: CAPORETTO AND VITTORIO VENETO -- 9 The Fascist Era and World War II, 1919-1945.

THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ITALIAN FASCISM -- THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, "MUTILATED VICTORY," AND THE RED BIENNIUM -- THE SQUADRISTI AND THE FASCIST MOVEMENT -- THE 1921 ELECTIONS AND THE COLLAPSE OF LIBERAL ITALY -- THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL STATE AND THE "MARCH ON ROME" -- THE CONSOLIDATION OF FASCIST POWER -- THE 1924 ELECTIONS AND THE MATTEOTTI CRISIS -- THE FASCIST REGIME -- FASCIST IDEOLOGY, PROPAGANDA, POPULAR CULTURE, AND THE CULT OF IL DUCE -- THE CORPORATE STATE -- THE LATERAN PACT -- FASCIST DIPLOMACY BETWEEN THE WARS -- THE ETHIOPIAN WAR AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR -- THE "PACT OF STEEL," ANTI-SEMITISM, AND ITALY'S ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II -- THE ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY AND THE FALL OF THE FASCIST REGIME -- 10 Postwar Italian Political and Economic Life -- THE LEGACY OF THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR -- THE INSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM, THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION, AND THE 1948 ELECTIONS -- POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE "ECONOMIC MIRACLE" -- SOCIALISTS AND THE CENTER-LEFT COALITIONS OF THE 1960S -- THE ADVENT OF RADICAL REVOLT, THE "HISTORIC COMPROMISE," AND THE "YEARS OF LEAD" -- DEFICITS, INFLATION, AND A RETURN TO PROSPERITY: THE ECONOMY IN THE 1970S AND 1980S -- THE END OF THE COLD WAR, TANGENTOPOLI, AND THE 1993 REFERENDUM -- ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION -- THE BICAMERALE PROPOSALS AND THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 2001: A "SECOND REPUBLIC?" -- 11 Postwar Italian Society and Culture -- THE WEIGHT OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- THE LEFTIST TRADITION IN POSTWAR CULTURE -- ITALIAN CULTURE IN THE COLD WAR ERA -- THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- SOCIAL CLASS, FAMILY, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH -- THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM AND THE MAFIA -- CONCLUSION -- Notable People in the History of Italy -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Bibliographic Essay.

GENERAL AND REFERENCE WORKS -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- Index -- About the Author -- ADVISORY BOARD.

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