A peasant revolt in Sicily is the starting point for a detailed, intimate account of the people who lived in the community: a fiercely proud local gentry and a British family, the largest landowners in the area. The story is used to examine Britain's policy towards Europe in the nineteenth century and colonial rule overseas in the age of Empire.
A peasant revolt in Sicily is the starting point for a detailed, intimate account of the people who lived in the community: a fiercely proud local gentry and a British family, the largest landowners in the area. The story is used to examine Britain's policy towards Europe in the nineteenth century and colonial rule overseas in the age of Empire.
Lucy Riall has held visiting appointments at the École Normale Supérieure Paris, the Free University Berlin and the University of Freiburg. Her publications include Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation-State (2009); Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (2007); and Sicily and the Unification of Italy, 1859-66: Liberal Policy and Local Power (1998).
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Preface Prologue: 1860 1: The Duchy 2: Apotheosis 3: The Dream 4: Nelson versus Bronte 5: Revolution 6: Viva l'Italia 7: North and South Epilogue: The Long Goodbye Appendix Bibliography
Preface Prologue: 1860 1: The Duchy 2: Apotheosis 3: The Dream 4: Nelson versus Bronte 5: Revolution 6: Viva l'Italia 7: North and South Epilogue: The Long Goodbye Appendix Bibliography
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