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
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt