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The Hunchback's Tailor Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922
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Alexander De Grand
ISBN: 0-275-96874-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96874-8
312 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £86.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. In the first complete English-language study of Giolitti, De Grand examines the political life of Italy's most notable prime minister after Cavour. Giolitti emerges not as a transitional figure leading fledgling Italy into modern democracy, but as a staunch adherent of 19th-century elitist liberalism trying to navigate the new tide of mass politics. De Grand's careful research offers valuable insight into Giolitti as statesman and, through him, a vantage point on the development of Italy during a critical period.

Giolitti's troubled relationship with mass politics defined his years in office. A life-long bureaucrat aloof from the electorate, Giolitti introduced near universal male suffrage—even while commenting that first teaching everyone to read and write would be a more reasonable route—and tolerated labor strikes. Rather than reform the state as a concession to populism, however, Giolitti sought to accommodate the politics of the piazza under the roof of liberal parliamentarianism, first in his pursuit of coalitions with Socialist and Catholic groups, and finally, at the end of his political life, in a failed courtship with Fascism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    The Apprenticeship of a Statesman, 1842-1892
    A Disastrous Beginning: The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, 1892-93
    Into the Wilderness: in Opposition, 1894-1901
    The Zanardelli-Giolotti Government, 1901-1903
    Giolitti's Second Ministry, "Doing it Right," 1904-1905
    The Long Ministry, 1906-1909
    Domestic Reform and War, 1910-1914
    A Second Political Exile, 1914-1920
    Giolitti and the Crisis of the Liberal State, 1920-1928
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: ALEXANDER DE GRAND is professor of history at North Carolina State University. His publications on modern Italy include The Italian Nationalist Association and the Rise of Fascism in Italy, Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The Fascist Style of Rule, and Bottai e la cultura fascista.
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