Italy, the least of the Great Powers : Italian foreign policy before the First World War
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Italy, the least of the Great Powers : Italian foreign policy before the First World War
Cambridge University Press, 1979
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 431-451
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the heart of Rome beside the Capitol, confronting the Piazza Venezia, stands the Victor Emmanuel monument. In Rome, which until 1945 was so often accorded the adjectives 'eternal' or 'imperial', the monumentissimo (as sardonic socialists labelled it) is the most public, most theatrical and most excessive architectural celebration of post-Risorgimento Italian patriotism, nationalism and perhaps imperialism. This book asks why the Victor Emmanuel monument, planned after 1878 and opened in 1911, was a structure raised by Liberal and not Fascist Italy. Through a detailed study of diplomacy, of policy-making, of policy-makers, and of the distribution of real power in pre-First World War Italy, it demonstrates how important foreign policy, and a foreign policy of greatness, was to Liberal Italy. Weakened by economic backwardness, regional diversity, and the gulf between the legal-political world and 'real' society, Liberal Italy was nonetheless ambitious to be a Great Power. This monograph contributes to a number of major historiographical debates. It produces evidence which casts doubts on the thesis that fascism was a parenthesis in Italian history.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of maps
- 1. Society and politics in Liberal Italy
- 2. New political pressure groups and foreign policy
- 3. The making of a Foreign Minister: Antonio Di San Giuliano
- 4. The Consulta: the bureaucrats of foreign policy
- 5. How Italy went to Libya
- 6. How Italy stayed in Libya
- 7. The politics of alliance: Italy in the Triple Alliance, 1912-1914
- 8. The politics of friendship: Italy, the Triple Entente, and the search for a new Mediterranean agreement, 1911-1914
- 9. 'Un cliente maleducato': Italy in the Dodecanese and Ethiopia, 1912-1914
- 10. Preparing to digest some spoils: Italian policy towards Turkey, 1912-1914
- 11. San Giuliano's epilogue: the realities of European war 28 June to 16 October 1914
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Notes
- Index.
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