List of Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Setting; Introduction: From "School of Europe" to Conquered Land; Part I: Enlightenment and French Revolutionary Italy; 1 The Italian Enlightenment; 2 Italy and the French Revolution; 3 The First War for Italian Unity; Part II: Restoration Italy; 4 A "Geographical Expression"; 5 Failed Revolutions: The 1820s and 1830s; Part III: The Risorgimento; 6 Three Models for Unification; 7 The Revolutions of 1848: The Great Shakeout; 8 Cavour and the Piedmontese Solution; Part IV: The "Age of Prose"; 9 Cavour's Heirs: The "Right" Reigns
Summary
Spans three centuries of Italian history, weaving together the country's social, political, and economic developments and orienting them within the larger framework of European history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-458) and index
