Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860

by John Anthony Davis

Book Overview

Naples and Napoleon rewrites the history of Italy in the age of the European revolutions from the perspective of the South. In contrast to later images of southern backwardness and immobility, Davis portrays the South as a precocious theatre for political and economic upheavals that sooner or later would challenge the survival of all the pre-Unification states. Focusing on the years of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy became the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199552304
• ISBN13: 9780199552306
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"