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Tables of Contents for Italy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
x
Preface
xi
Italy in the classical world
1
37
Prehistoric Italy
1
5
The Greeks, the Etruscans and the arrival of the Romans
6
6
The Roman Republic, c. 509 BC--AD 313
12
14
The Roman Empire, AD 313--C. 400
26
12
The early Middle Ages
38
28
Barbarian invasions and Byzantine Italy, C. 400--C. 600
38
5
Lombard Italy and the foundation of the Papal States, C. 600--800
43
6
The Empire and the Papacy, 800--1216
49
10
Venice and her maritime empire, C. 600--C. 1300
59
7
The high Middle Ages
66
30
Sicily under the Normans and Frederick II, 1130--1250
66
6
The city-states and the republics
72
11
The decline of the Papacy and the Avignon period, 1216--1378
83
6
Cultural achievements in the age of Giotto, Dante and Petrarch
89
7
The Renaissance
96
30
The Black Death and the economic recovery of the fifteenth century
96
7
Humanism and the impact of printing
103
9
Florence under the Medici and the Republic
112
7
The High Renaissance: artists and their patrons in Rome, Milan, Venice and Naples
119
7
The political and cultural eclipse of Italy
126
27
The foreign invasions and wars of the sixteenth century
126
6
The Counter-Reformation and the Spanish period
132
9
The Austrian period and the return to Europe
141
6
The military state of Savoy and its dynasty
147
6
The Risorgimento, 1790--1861
153
45
The Napoleonic and Restoration eras, 1790--1861
153
11
Italian nationalism and the role of Mazzini, 1821--49
164
14
Cavour and the europeanization of the Italian Question, 1852--9
178
9
Garibaldi and the achievement of unity, 1859--61
187
11
From Unification to Fascism, 1861--1922
198
27
The first years of unity and the era of Depretis and Crispi, 1861--96
198
10
Giolitti's building of democracy, 1892--1914
208
4
The First World War: neutrality, intervention, and victory, 1914--19
212
6
Socialist failure and the advent of Fascism, 1890--1922
218
7
The Fascist disaster, 1922--45
225
19
The establishment of the dictatorship, 1922--9
225
5
Isolation and triumph in foreign policy, 1925--36
230
5
The alliance with Germany: neutrality and entry into the Second World War, 1936--40
235
4
Defeat and the collapse of Fascism, 1940--5
239
5
Italy since the Second World War, 1945--80
244
19
The resistance and the establishment of the Republic, 1944--7
244
6
The economic recovery and the predominance of Christian Democracy, 1947--58
250
6
Communism in Italy and its relations in Western and Eastern Europe since 1956
256
7
Epilogue: From the First to the Second Republic: Italy 1980--2001
263
14
A brief guide to further reading
277
3
Index
280