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A HISTORY OF SICILY: MODERN SICILY AFTER 1713.

A HISTORY OF SICILY: MODERN SICILY AFTER 1713. Hardcover - 1988

by Smith, Denis Mack

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New York: Dorset Press, 1988. Paging runs 241 - 583 (continues from the companion volume "Medieval Sicily 800-1713" - not included here), 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps. Contents: Three Experiments in Foreign Government 1713-1765 (Rule from Turin - Rule from Vienna - Trade and Industry under the Austrians - Naples and the Sicilian Parliament); Society and the Englightenment: The Eighteenth Century (Cereals and the Economy - Land Tenure and the Road System - The Nobility - Bandits and the Law - Intellectuals and Reform); Revolution and Reform 1770-1800 (The Palermo Revolt of 1773 - The Viceroyalty of Caracciolo 1781-1786 - The Partial Success of Reform); Later Bourbon Sicily 1800-1837 (British Intervention - The Constitution of 1812 - Restoration and Revolution 1816-1821 - Reform and Reaction); The Economy 1750-1850 (Commerce - Industry - Agriculture - Restraints on Economic Development); The Risorgimento 1837-1860 (Dislike of Naples - The Revolution of 1848-1849 - The End of the Bourbons - Garibaldi); Italian Sicily 1860-1890 (Union with Italy - Repression and Revolt - The "Southern Problem" - Society and the Economy); The Failure of Parliamentarism 1880-1922 (Crispi and the Fasci Rebellion - The Mafia and Political Corruption - Giolitti and the Economy - Liberalism in Crisis); Sicily Since 1922 (Mussolini - World War and Its Aftermath - Sicilian Autonomy). Previous owner's small stamp on front pastedown. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top of rear hinge, very minor rubbing.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.
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