Cavour

by Harry Hearder

Overview

Cavour was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, still reeling from military humiliation by Austria, he turned his backward and insignificant home state into the nucleus of the new Italy by his astute manipulation of the European great powers, becoming the united country's first prime minister in the year of his death, 1861. Harry Hearder's incisive study, setting Cavour and the Risorgimento in the full context of international European power-politics, reveals a ruthless, egocentric and far from balanced man - but a politician of genius.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138837386
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/09/2015
Series:	Profiles In Power
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Harry Hearder

Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Origins, boyhood and youth, 1810-30
2. Lover, farmer and speculator, 1830-48
3. Cavour's economic and political philosophy
4. Power and the first taste of European politics
5. The alliance with France 1856-59
6. The war of 1859: its preparations and consequences
7. Cavour and Gariboldi in the final struggle to reunite Italy, 1860-61
8. Cavour and the historians
9. Sequel and conclusions
Chronology
Bibliographical Note
Map
Index

Editorial Reviews

'lively and informative study of the life of Cavour'

History

'A lively analysis xxx; The chapters on Cavourian diplomacy are succinct; especially well informed in one analysing Cavour's fate over the years at the hands of historians.'

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