Introduction: Naples, Napoleon and the Origins of the Two
Italies
Part One: Absolutist Naples
1: The Ancien Regime in the South
2: Projecting Reform
3: Undermining the Old Order
4: 1799: The Rise and Fall of the Republic
5: Jacobins and Patriots
6: The Counter-Revolution
Part Two: Napoleonic Naples
7: Naples in the Imperial Enterprise
8: The Costs of Empire
9: The Promise of Change
10: A Kingdom Remodelled? The Provinces and the Capital
11: Disorder
12: Legacies of Empire
Part Three: Restoration & Revolution
13: Losing Naples
14: Restoration
15: Revolution
Conclusion: States of Insecurity
John A. Davis studied modern history at Oxford and taught
subsequently at the University of Warwick, where he was Director of
the Centre for Social History. In 1992 he moved to the University
of Connecticut, where he holds the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in
Modern Italian History. With David Kertzer he founded the Journal
of Modern Italian Studies in 1995, which they continue to edit
jointly. Davis was awarded the British Academy Serena Medal in 1996
for his
contributions to Italian history, and the Galileo Galilei Prize in
2000. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Resident of the
American Academy in Rome.
This is a radical book; it turns the question of political change in Italy in the century before Unification upside down and redefines the south/north dichotomy. ... This is the most important and most comprehensive study of southern Italy in that period and it is destined to change the terms of discourse on Italy's Risorgimento. Marta Petrusewicz, Journal of Modern Italian Studies John Davis's remarkable study of the largest of the Italian states goes a long way to demonstrating the suggestive and revisionist thesis that in broad outline the kingdom of Naples was in most respects similar to the other imperial satellites...Naples, in this fascinating reading eventually parted company with its fratelli to the north...only late in the nineteenth century. Steven Englund, The Historical Journal Davis offers a sharp, nuanced synthesis of a complex period,and a persuasive analysis of the Italian South in the age of revolution...a splendid achievement: thorough, solid, innovative, convincing, and appealingly written. Tommaso Astarita, Catholic Historical Review
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