Victor Emanuel, Cavour and the Risorgimento

History

MacK Smith, Denis

Europe

Oxford University Press

Traduzione di Giovanni Ferrara Degli Uberti. Con 22 ill. fotografiche in nero in tavole f.t. 8vo pp. 530 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Molto Buono (Very Good)

Mussolini

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Written by one of the world's leading historians of Italy, this provocative and highly readable book is the first major study of the Italian monarchy and its impact on Italy's history, from Unification in 1861 to the foundation of the Italian republic after the Second World War.
"Brilliant, . . . remarkable, . . . highly entertaining. . . . Only Mack Smith could have told what is finally so shabby a story with this combination of learning and bravura."―Nicholas Richardson, Sunday Times 
"A brilliant narrative history of the political role of the kings of Italy. It is based on an immense range of sources."―Philip Mansel, Daily Telegraph
"Mack Smith is the leading writer in English on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian history. . . . [He] has now written a study of the Italian monarchy that subjects the four kings of united Italy to [. . . a] . . . debunking treatment. He shows how indispensable the monarchy was for the working of the Italian political system, but also how it was ultimately disastrous."―James Joll, New York Review of Books
"A welcome addition to libraries in the English-speaking world. . . . Denis Mack Smith shows masterful command of political and diplomatic sources and balanced historical judgment."―Clara M. Lovett, American Historical Review
"A book to be read and enjoyed. It is urbane [and] stylish."―Richard Bosworth, International History Review

Italy and its Monarchy

Yale University Press

Mazzini

Italian nationalist and radical reformer Guiseppe Mazzini (1805-72) was a leading political figure of his day and left an enduring mark on the history of Europe. His current obscurity can be traced to the reluctance of subsequent Italian governments to lionize someone who championed such causes as religious reform, social security, universal suffrage, and women's rights; and hung out with the likes of Marx, Bakunin, and John Stuart Mill. Mack Smith (Italian history, Oxford) presents the first biography in English since 1902. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Historical

Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and fascinating personality, his ideas were influential throughout Europe. Yet successive Italian governments, fearing the consequences of his belief in democracy and revolution, deliberately obscured his achievements: there have been few modern studies of Mazzini and no biography in English since 1902. Denis Mack Smith's major new account reexamines Mazzini's ideological impact and his place in the political and intellectual world of the mid-nineteenth century. Based on profound scholarship and immense archival research, the book recreates Mazzini's long years of poverty and exile in London and the networks of friends, associates, and enemies that brought him into contact with the greatest European figures of the age, among them Marx, Carlyle, Mill, and Bakunin. Mazzini is revealed as an acute but largely unrecognized prophet of the idea of a European community: he saw nationalism as a step toward larger and more harmonious confederations. Adept at inspiring admiration and animosity equally, Mazzini affronted the pope by his demand for religious reform, Karl Marx by his powerful critique of communism, and many of his less enlightened contemporaries for his campaigns on behalf of social security, universal suffrage, and women's rights. Yet he was universally venerated for his brilliance, humanity, and wisdom, and even his critics agreed that he left an enduring mark on his time.

The Making of Italy, 1796–1866

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.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Italy: A Modern History (History of Modern World) [Jun 01, 1969] MacK Smith, Denis ...

Italy: A Modern History

Univ of Michigan Pr

This history of modern Italy began in March 1861 when Count Camillo Cavour proclaimed a united Italian kingdom with the goal of creating a prosperous, liberal new power in Europe. For a country whose ancient heritage had placed it at the center of western culture, this late entry into nationhood and rapid reach for power would bring frequent crisis. In this fully revised edition of his classic history of the country, Denis Mack Smith provides a complete and engaging narrative of the fate of Italy from Risorgimento to the present. For sixty years after 1861 Italy was governed by a liberal oligarchy under a parliamentary constitution. Italy chose the winning side in the First World War, but the enormous costs of victory revealed social tensions and constitutional weaknesses that prepared the way, after 1920, for Europe's first fascist dictatorship. After the painful civil war that followed World War II, Italy rediscovered liberal democracy, and under a new republican regime became one of the major industrialized countries of the world. First published in 1958 as Italy: A Modern History, the book has been substantially rewritten with a new section on the period after 1945, a new bibliography, new maps, and updated factual appendices. Stylish, clearly written, deeply informed and often controversial, it remains the definitive account for anyone interested in modern Italy. ". . . an extraordinarily good and concise introduction to the scandals that almost destroyed the Italian Republic." --Alexander DeGrand, North Carolina State University "No one will be surprised that in this new edition Mack Smith recounts the recent history of the Republic up to 1996 with the same shrewd authorial eye, both distant and perceptive, the deep knowledge, and the skill that made the older edition of this book a classic." --Raymond Grew, University of Michigan Denis Mack Smith is a Fellow of the British Academy and Wolfson College, Oxford, and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been awarded a dozen literary prizes in Italy and is a Commendatore of the Italian Order of Merit. Among his recent books are Italy and Its Monarchy (1989) and Mazzini (1994).

Modern Italy: A Political History

University of Michigan Press

Mussolini's Roman empire

Longman

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Victor Emanuel, Cavour and the Risorgimento

Mussolini

Italy and its Monarchy

Mazzini

Mazzini

The Making of Italy, 1796–1866

The Making of Italy, 1796–1866

Italy: A Modern History

Modern Italy: A Political History

Mussolini's Roman empire