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Mussolini
“The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary blood-thirstiness...combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence...one of the most severe indictments of Mussolini ever penned.”—Sunday Times. An unflinching portrait of a supreme opportunist. Although Mussolini considered himself a man of destiny, he program consisted of little more than aggression overseas, suppression at home, and an aping of Hitler's racial laws. In the end, that “destiny” led to his nation's collapse and his own destruction.
Mussolini
Bibliography: p. 389-416. A political biography exploring Mussolini's career including his childhood, his leadership of Italy, his weaknesses, and his military miscalculations.
Cavour
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Cavour and Garibaldi 1860
An important study of the Risorgimento. devoted to seven crucial months in 1860.
Mazzini
DIVGiuseppe 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 s...
Modern Italy
Covers the period from March 1861 to the present day.
Italy and Its Monarchy
This book presents a study of the Italian monarchy and its impact on Italy's history, from Unification in 1861 to the foundation of the Italian republic after World War II.
Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento
A comparative European perspective on aspects of nineteenth-century Italian politics and social history.
