Italy and Its MonarchyYale 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
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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 |
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