R. John Rath

The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy-Venetia, 1814-1815

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Produktbeschreibung

When Austrian soldiers first set foot in Lombardy-Venetia in October, 1813, they were greeted everywhere as liberators and friends. In the spring of 1815, when Joachim Murat's efforts to establish a united Italy ended in miserable failure and when the Habsburgs announced the main features of the regime they intended to establish in their Italian provinces, the Venetians were still strongly pro-Austrian, but considerable anti-Habsburg feeling had developed among the Lombards. This carefully documented study of the first two years of Austrian reoccupation of Lombardy-Venetia examines all aspects of the Habsburg provisional regimes and draws some conclusions about the reasons for the different attitudes in the two provinces. In detailed sketches of the provisional governments of Venetia (Chapter I) and Lombardy (Chapter II) and an examination of Austrian economic policies and practices in both provinces (Chapter III), the author shows that although the governments of the two provinces shared many common traits, they differed in a number of significant ways. Actually, Venetia was much less efficiently governed than Lombardy; and the Lombards enjoyed at least a small measure of self-administration that was largely denied the Venetians. The Lombards were much more prosperous than their neighbors, yet they paid much less in taxes and were exempt from most of the burdensome military requisitions that the Austrians inflicted on the Venetians. In spite of these advantages, the relatively small nationalist movement in Austria's Italian provinces was almost entirely confined to Lombardy. The author examines public opinion in Lombardy-Venetia about liberal intrigues (Chapter IV); the relationship of secret societies to liberalism (Chapter V); the Brescian-Milanese conspiracy (Chapter VI) and the Austrian handling of that affair (Chapter VII); and the fiasco of Joachim Murat's "War of Italian Independence" (Chapter VIII).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1969
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780292741546
• ISBN-10: 0292741545
• Artikelnr.: 35055737

Autorenporträt

By R. John Rath

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. The Provisional Government in Venetia
Chapter 2. The Lombard Provisional Government
Chapter 3. Austrian Economic Policies and Practices in Lombardy-Venetia, 1814–1815
Chapter 4. Public Opinion and Liberal Intrigues (1814)
Chapter 5. The Secret World
Chapter 6. The Brescian-Milanese Conspiracy
Chapter 7. The Mantua Process
Chapter 8. Joachim Murat’s “War of Italian Independence”
Bibliography
Index