Table of Contents

List of figures and maps; List of contributors; Preface; 1. 1799: the Santafede and the crisis of the ancien régime in southern Italy John A. Davis; 2. War and society in Napoleonic Italy: the armies of the Kingdom of Italy at home and abroad Franco Della Peruta; 3. The poor and how to relieve them: the Restoration debate on poverty in Italy and Europe Stuart Woolf; 4. Bandits, violence and the organization of power in Sicily in the early nineteenth century Giovanna Fiume; 5. Marriage and the family in Italy in the early nineteenth century Marzio Barbagli; 6. After the Revolution: bandits on the plains of the Po 1848–54 Paul Ginsborg; 7. Labouring women in northern and central Italy in the nineteenth century Simonetta Ortaggi Cammarosano; 8. Garibaldi in England: the politics of Italian enthusiasm Derek Beales; 9. The middle classes in Liberal Italy Adrian Lyttelton; 10. Francesco De Sanctis: the politics of a literary critic Denis Mack Smith; Bibliography of Denis Mack Smith's writings on nineteenth-century Italy; Index.

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A comparative European perspective on aspects of nineteenth-century Italian politics and social history.