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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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Harry Hearder
Résumé
A study of the life, career, beliefs and motives of Cavour, first prime minister of Italy. This was a position which he created, as it did not exist when his career began. Topics covered include the argument that Cavour was more interested in increasing Piedmont's power than in Italian unification.
