At the same time as German unification, Italy was also undergoing a process of state formation between 1848 and 1870. Like Germany, Italy had been nothing more than a geographical concept since the Middle Ages, divided into numerous territories of varying sizes. Italian unification had to be fought for on the battlefields against the armies of Austria and the Papacy, and was also a tremendous process of modernisation. The key players were the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and the charismatic hero Giuseppe Garibaldi. Klaus-Jürgen Bremm describes the dramatic events that transformed the fragmented Apennine Peninsula into the nation state of Italy, Garibaldi's March of the Thousand in 1860, the battles mainly against the troops of the Austrian Empire, and the capture of Rome in 1870. Rome thus became the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy.
Author
Bremm, Klaus-Jürgen
Title
Risorgimento!
Details
320 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
Italiens Kampf um die Einheit im 19. Jahrhundert
Herder Verlag GmbH Hermann-Herder-Str. 4 79104 Freiburg Deutschland
