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    Series series General History of Europe
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  • Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790 - 1870

    by Harry Hearder ...
    Series series Longman History of Italy
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  • Italy

    A Short History

    Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller, with an interest in Italian affairs. Harry Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social context, ... Read more

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  • Cavour

    by Harry Hearder ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Wars of German Unification

    Series series Origins Of Modern Wars
    In his last book, the late William Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Prussia in creating the Bismarckian Reich of 1871. He begins with a study of the development of nationalism and liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the 1860's, before turning to a detailed examination of the Schleswig-Holstein Conflict of 1864; the `Six Weeks ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli

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    by Ross King ...
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    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
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