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Federico Chabod (1901-1960) was one of Italy's best-known historians, noted for his study of Italian history in a European context. This is the first English translation of his most important book. Although he carried out his extensive archival research for this work from 1936 until 1943, the fall of fascism and Chabod's active participation in the Resistance delayed its completion. When it was published in 1951, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece.
Chabod intended to write a new kind of diplomatic history-- one in which political history is seen as part of a larger historical whole. He does not present a detailed chronological account of Italian foreign policy during the period studied, but rather the "moral and material" underpinnings of that policy. In fact, he crafts a highly developed portrait of an age, with the real subjects being the Italian state and society, the ruling class and political culture. This work offers readers a superb picture of post-Risorgimento Italy and an outstanding example of Chabod's historiographical method.
Originally published in 1996.
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List of contents
Foreword to the Series Ch. 1What Prussia Had to Teach Ch. 2The Lesson of "Reality" in France Ch. 3Against the "Realism" of Bismarck Ch. 4The "Mission" of Rome Ch. 5Science or Renovatio Ecclesiae? Ch. 6The Shadow of Caesar Ch. 7The Anti-Romans Ch. 8The Conservative Program Ch. 9Among the Elite Ch. 10Liberty and Law Ch. 11The Present and the Future Pt. 2The Objective World and the World of Men Ch. 12Finance and the Army Ch. 13Political Apathy Ch. 14High Politics or the Politics of Tranquillity? Ch. 15Emilio Visconti Venosta Ch. 16Costantino Nigra Ch. 17Count de Launay Ch. 18Count di Robilant Ch. 19Lanza and Minghetti Ch. 20Vittorio Emanuele II Bibliography Index
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Federico Chabod
Translated by William McCuaig
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Federico Chabod (1901-1960) was one of Italy's best-known historians, noted for his study of Italian history in a European context. This is the first English translation of his most important book. Although he carried out his extensive archival research for this work from 1936 until 1943, the fall of fascism and Chabod's active participation in the
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"It is a most impressive and interesting work.... It is far more than a diplomatic history.... Chabod has produced a kind of total history that is a monument of scholarship, splendidly organized."
