Cavour

Hearder, Harry

ISBN 10: 0582019036 ISBN 13: 9780582019034

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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'lively and informative study of the life of Cavour'

History

'A lively analysis xxx; The chapters on Cavourian diplomacy are succinct; especially well informed in one analysing Cavour's fate over the years at the hands of historians.'

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Cavour (1810-1861) was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, he turned this backward and insignificant state into the nucleus of the new Italy, and became the united country's first prime minister in the year of his death, 1861. Here, Harry Hearder sets him and the Risorgimento in the full context of international European power-politics. This book considers the origins and early life of Cavour and how he became prime minister of Piedmont. It reveals Cavour as a ruthless, egocentric and far from balanced man - but a politician of genius and shows how he used his cunning as a politician to manipulate the European great powers to the advantage of Italian unification.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0582019036
• ISBN 13: 9780582019034
• Rilegatura: Libro di testo
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 238