Society and politics in the age of the Risorgimento : essays in honour of Denis Mack Smith

Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento contains ten essays written in honour of Denis Mack Smith by leading British and Italian specialists. The volume is intended both as a tribute to Denis Mack Smith's outstanding contribution to Italian history and as an attempt to open up wider debate on Italian society and politics in the period of the Risorgimento, bringing aspects of nineteenth-century Italian politics and social history into a comparative European context. Topics discussed in the volume include the collapse of the ancien régime in southern Italy; the Italian armies in the Napoleonic period; debates on poverty in Italy and Europe in the early nineteenth century; family and marriage; the origins of the mafia in Sicily; peasant protest in the Po valley; Garibaldi and England in the 1860s; the emergence of an Italian middle class; women workers; and the politics of the critic Francesco De Sanctis Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento contains ten essays written in honour of Denis Mack Smith by leading British and Italian specialists. The volume is intended both as a tribute to Denis Mack Smith's outstanding contribution to Italian history and as an attempt to open up wider debate on Italian society and politics in the period of the Risorgimento, bringing aspects of nineteenth-century Italian politics and social history into a comparative European context. Topics discussed in the volume include the collapse of the ancien régime in southern Italy; the Italian armies in the Napoleonic period; debates on poverty in Italy and Europe in the early nineteenth century; family and marriage; the origins of the mafia in Sicily; peasant protest in the Po valley; Garibaldi and England in the 1860s; the emergence of an Italian middle class; women workers; and the politics of the critic Francesco De Sanctis 1799: the Santafede and the crisis of the Ancien Regime in southern Italy / John A. Davis War and society in Napoleonic Italy / Franco Della Peruta The poor and how to relieve them / Stuart Woolf Bandits, violence, and the organization of power in Sicily in the early nineteenth century / Giovanna Fiume Marriage and the family in Italy in the early nineteenth century / Marzio Barbagli After the revolution / Paul Ginsborg Labouring women in northern and central Italy in the nineteenth century / Simonetta Ortaggi Cammarosano Garibaldi in England / Derek Beales The middle classes in liberal Italy / Adrian Lyttelton Francesco de Sanctis / Denis Mack Smith. Edited By John A. Davis And Paul Ginsborg. First Published 1991. Bibliography Of Denis Mack Smith's Writings On Italy: Pages 271-273. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In the spring and summer of 1799 the Italian peninsula seemed to become the promised land of the counter-revolution.