Product Description: Cavour was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, still reeling from military humiliation by Austria, he turned his backward and insignificant home state into the nucleus of the new Italy by his astute manipulation of the European great powers, becoming the united country's first prime minister in the year of his death, 1861...read more

Product Description: The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of immense activity, radical political change, and striking economic and social growth in Europe. The major themes of the struggles between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the states themselves are explored within the context of a study of the administration, organisation and growth of European society...read more

Surveys the history of Italy, with an emphasis on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the role of the Papacy in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and subsequent period of decline, unification, fascism, and the post-war period (view table of contents)

Product Description: The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of great activity, radical political change and striking economic and social growth in Europe. In the latest edition of this textbook the struggles for power between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the nations themselves, are discussed within the context of a study of the administration, organization and growth of European society...read more

Product Description: The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of immense activity, radical political change, and striking economic and social growth in Europe. The major themes of the struggles between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the states themselves are explored within the context of a study of the administration, organisation and growth of European society...read more