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Synopsis for JW3 Italian class, Thursday 10th Feb

SOCIAL PROGRESS & SOCIAL STAGNATION

1861-1915



  • That North/South divide again!

  • Money and weights and measures

  • Industrial Progress in the North brings its own problems

  • 1893 Riots in Sicily

  • 1898/99 Riots in North and South

  • Assassination of Umberto I

  • Emigration an answer for many

  • Concluding remarks


Some new book references


Christ stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi

Rural Italy William Beauclerk

Casalattico Brian Reynolds

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