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Naples and Napoleon - Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (Hardcover)
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Naples and Napoleon - Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (Hardcover)
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In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping
reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the
European revolutions. The book's central themes are posed by the
period of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy was
the Mediterranean frontier of Napoleon's continental empire. The
tensions between Naples and Paris made this an important chapter in
the history of that empire and revealed the deeper contradictions
on which it was founded. But the brief interlude of Napoleonic rule
later came to be seen as the critical moment when a modernizing
North finally parted company from a backward South. Although these
arguments still shape the ways in which Italian history is written,
in most parts of the North political and economic change before
Unification was slow and gradual; whereas in the South it came
sooner and in more disruptive forms. Davis develops a wide-ranging
critical reassessment of the dynamics of political change in the
century before Unification. His starting point is the crisis that
overwhelmed the Italian states at the end of the 18th century, when
Italian rulers saw the political and economic fabric of the Ancien
Regime undermined throughout Europe. In the South the crisis was
especially far reaching and this, Davis argues, was the reason why
in the following decade the South became the theatre for one of the
most ambitious reform projects in Napoleonic Europe. The transition
was precarious and insecure, but also mobilized political projects
and forms of collective action that had no counterparts elsewhere
in Italy before 1848, illustrating the similar nature of the
political challenges facing all the pre-Unification states.
Although Unification finally brought Italy's insecure dynastic
principalities to an end, it offered no remedies to the
insecurities that from much earlier had made the South especially
vulnerable to the challenges of the new age: which was why the
South would become a problem - Italy's 'Southern Problem'.
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