ISBN10: 0198207557, ISBN13: 9780198207559, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2006 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 384 p.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860. ISBN 0198207557 9780198207559 [GB]

ISBN10: 0198207557, ISBN13: 9780198207559, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 ofthat 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 finallyparted 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 statesat 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 andthis, Davis argues, was the ...
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ISBN10: 0198207557, ISBN13: 9780198207559, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers like new. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket like new. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

Oxford University Press 2006-11-16 Hardcover Good Size: 8x5x0; Dust jacket has a one inch rip, some wear, along top edge. Some pages creased at corner. No marks in text.