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