| Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power 1859-1866 Contributor(s): Riall, Lucy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198206801 ISBN-13: 9780198206804 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: This is the first in-depth analysis of the impact of Italian unification on the hitherto isolated communities of rural Sicily. Beginning with the period prior to the revolution of 1860, Dr Riall shows why successive attempts at political reform failed, and analyzes the effects of this failure. Through an examination of the problems of local government - tax collection, conscription, the organization of policing - and of attempts to suppress peasant disturbances and control crime, she shows that the modernization of the Sicilian countryside both undermined the control of the central government and made the countryside itself more unstable. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism |
| Dewey: 945.808 |
| LCCN: 97018125 |
| Lexile Measure: 1650 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.08 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Italy - Cultural Region - Mediterranean |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first in-depth analysis of the impact of Italian unification on the hitherto isolated communities of rural Sicily. Beginning with the period prior to the revolution of 1860, Dr Riall shows why successive attempts at political reform failed, and analyzes the effects of this failure. Through an examination of the problems of local government - tax collection, conscription, the organization of policing - and of attempts to suppress peasant disturbances and control crime, she shows that the modernization of the Sicilian countryside both undermined the control of the central government and made the countryside itself more unstable. |