Italy and Its Monarchy

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Yale University Press, 1 janv. 1989 - 402 pages

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

 

Table des matières

The king and the constitution 1861
3
Court politics 18667
33
The Liberators of Italy
36
6
36
Personal rule
42
The conquest of Rome
48
The Left in power
54
Death and retrospect
60
Salandra 1914
197
To fight or not to fight?
205
Italy at war 191517
217
Defeat and triumph 191718
226
Postwar difficulties
233
Fascism and the march on Rome
244
The fascist dictatorship
254
The diarchy
267

32
66
The Triple Alliance
75
Crispi 188791
91
6
98
Crispi and the politics of force
106
Umberto reasserts his authority
121
Umberto I 1900
138
between pages 148 and
149
Queen Elena 1900
158
The beginning of Giolittismo
163
Greatpower politics
173
Umberto II votes in the referendum 1946
180
Victory in Libya
182
Giolitti in difficulties 191214
191
Alliance with Germany
275
Italy drifts into war
287
The regime disintegrates
294
Mussolini is dismissed
300
The armistice
306
The flight from Rome
316
The monarchy under attack
323
Umberto II
330
Abbreviations and Acknowledgements
343
Retrospect
349
The collapse of parliamentary government
359
List of prime ministers of Italy
391
A new direction in politics
401
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