The hunchback's tailor : Giovanni Giolitti and liberal Italy from the challenge of mass politics to the rise of fascism, 1882-1922
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The hunchback's tailor : Giovanni Giolitti and liberal Italy from the challenge of mass politics to the rise of fascism, 1882-1922
(Italian and Italian American studies)
Praeger, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index
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Description
Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. In the first complete English-language study of Giolitti, De Grand examines the political life of Italy's most notable prime minister after Cavour. Giolitti emerges not as a transitional figure leading fledgling Italy into modern democracy, but as a staunch adherent of 19th-century elitist liberalism trying to navigate the new tide of mass politics. De Grand's careful research offers valuable insight into Giolitti as statesman and, through him, a vantage point on the development of Italy during a critical period.
Giolitti's troubled relationship with mass politics defined his years in office. A life-long bureaucrat aloof from the electorate, Giolitti introduced near universal male suffrage—even while commenting that first teaching everyone to read and write would be a more reasonable route—and tolerated labor strikes. Rather than reform the state as a concession to populism, however, Giolitti sought to accommodate the politics of the piazza under the roof of liberal parliamentarianism, first in his pursuit of coalitions with Socialist and Catholic groups, and finally, at the end of his political life, in a failed courtship with Fascism.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Apprenticeship of a Statesman, 1842-1892
A Disastrous Beginning: The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, 1892-93
Into the Wilderness: in Opposition, 1894-1901
The Zanardelli-Giolotti Government, 1901-1903
Giolitti's Second Ministry, "Doing it Right," 1904-1905
The Long Ministry, 1906-1909
Domestic Reform and War, 1910-1914
A Second Political Exile, 1914-1920
Giolitti and the Crisis of the Liberal State, 1920-1928
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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