Author: Emma Maria PearsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
From Rome to Mentana
Author: Emma Maria PearsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Short History of Europe
Author: Charles Sanford TerryPublisher: London, G. Routledge & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Italy, Medieval and Modern
Author: Evelyn Mary JamisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Italy, Mediaeval and Modern
Author: Evelyn Mary JamisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Author: Tim ParksPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393866858
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines. In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge French army. Against all odds, Garibaldi was determined to turn defeat into moral victory. On the evening of July 2, riding alongside his pregnant wife, Anita, he led 4,000 hastily assembled men to continue the struggle for national independence elsewhere. Hounded by both French and Austrian armies, the garibaldini marched hundreds of miles across the Appenines, Italy’s mountainous spine, and after two months of skirmishes and adventures arrived in Ravenna with just 250 survivors. Best-selling author Tim Parks, together with his partner Eleonora, set out in the blazing summer of 2019 to follow Garibaldi and Anita’s arduous journey through the heart of Italy. In The Hero’s Way he delivers a superb travelogue that captures Garibaldi’s determination, creativity, reckless courage, and profound belief. And he provides a fascinating portrait of Italy then and now, filled with unforgettable observations of Italian life and landscape, politics, and people.
Donahoe's Magazine
Author: The Age of Reconstruction
Author: Don H. DoylePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069125611X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe. In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals, including Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Mazzini, even called for a “United States of Europe.” Yet for all its achievements and optimism, this “new birth of freedom” was short-lived. By the 1890s, Reconstruction had been undone in the United States and abroad and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy—and a very different kind of model to the world. At home and abroad, America’s Reconstruction was, as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world.” The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy, having survived the great test of the Civil War, was ascendant around the Atlantic world.
Rome and the Campagna
Author: Robert BurnPublisher:
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Category : Campagna di Roma (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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A History of Modern Europe
Author: FyffeA History of Modern Europe: From 1848 to 1878
Author: Charles Alan FyffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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