Preface.- Risorgimento, Reform and Revolution.- The Risorgimento and the History of Italy.- The Politics of Restoration.- Social Conflict and Social Change.- Growth, Stagnation and Economic Difference.- Nation, Identity and Nationalist Politics.- Italian Unification.- Bibliography.- Index.
Lucy Riall is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and is the author of Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power (1859-1866) (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (Yale University Press, 2007).