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" ... the long introduction and its useful footnotes will be of real assistance to those interested in Italian unification." History

Preface to the Longman edition Introduction 1. Historiography 2. The beginnings of Risorgimento 1748-1815 3. From the restoration to 1832 4. Charles Albert, Mazzini and the Moderates 1983-46 5. The 'Forty-Eight' 6. The transformation of Piedmont 1849-59 7. Cavour's foreign policy and unification 1852-61 8. Epilogue Documents 1. Linguistic and cultural nationalism 2. Enlightened despotism 3. The first calls for national unity 4. The Neapolitan revolution to 1799 5. Piedmontese policy and the treaty of Vienna 6. Restoration Italy 7. Buonarroti's activities 8. Mazzini's programme 9. Gioberti's 'Philosophy' 10. The acien regime loses its nerve 11. The 'Forty-Eight' in Rome 12. The 'Forty-Eight' in Naples 13. Austrian reaction and the Piedmontese constitution 14. Plombieres 15. The Tuscan Revolution of 1859 16. Cavour and Garibaldi's Expedition Index to Introduction