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Naples and Napoleon - Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Naples and Napoleon - Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Naples and Napoleon rewrites the history of Italy in the age of the
European revolutions from the perspective of the South. In contrast
to later images of southern backwardness and immobility, Davis
portrays the South as a precocious theatre for political and
economic upheavals that sooner or later would challenge the
survival of all the pre-Unification states. Focusing on the years
of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy became the
arena for one of the most ambitious reform projects in Napoleonic
Europe, Davis argues that this owed less to Napoleon than to the
forces unleashed by the crisis of the Ancien Regime. However, an
examination of the earlier Republic and the popular
counter-revolutions of 1799, along with the later revolutions in
Naples and Sicily in 1820-1, reveals that the impact of these
changes was deeply contradictory.
This major reinterpretation of the history of the South before
Unification significantly reshapes our understanding of how the
Italian states came to be unified, while Davis also shows why long
after Unification not just the South but Italy as a whole would
remain vulnerable to the continuing challenges of the new age
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