A military history of Italy / Ciro Paoletti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paoletti, Ciro, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--History, Military.

Italy.

History, Military.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.

Contents:

Part I The Sixteenth Century

1 Before the Deluge 3

2 The Italian Wars in the Early Sixteenth Century 8

3 Between France and the Muslims: 1565-1601 16

Part II The Seventeenth Century

4 The Thirty Years' War in Italy 23

5 The Second Half of the Century 30

6 The League of Augsburg: 1690-1696 38

Part III The Eighteenth Century

7 The Spanish Succession: 1700-1713 43

8 The Second Morea War, the Quadruple Alliance, and the Corsican Troubles: 1715-1733 48

9 The Polish Succession: 1733-1739 51

10 The War of Austrian Succession: 1740-1748 53

11 Italy from the Corsican Rebellion to the French Revolution through the First Cold War: 1748-1792 57

12 The Revolutionary Hurricane: 1792-1799 63

Part IV The Nineteenth Century

13 Napoleon Emperor and King 77

14 From the Restoration to the First War of Independence: 1816-1847 85

15 The First War of Independence: 1848-1849 94

16 From the Peace to the Second War of Independence: 1849-1859 102

17 Garibaldi in Sicily 110

18 The New State 115

19 The Kingdom, Royal Policy, and the Colonies, from Rome to Peking: 1871-1900 122

Part V The Twentieth Century

20 Before the Great War: 1900-1912 131

21 The Great War: 1915-1918 136

22 From the Great War to the Ethiopian War 151

23 "Overseas Spain" and "Overseas Tirana": 1936-1939 162

24 The War with the Germans: 1940-1943 167

25 The War Against the Germans: 1943-1945 183

26 Italian Armed Forces from World War II to the End of the Cold War: 1946-1988 192

27 Italy and NATO until the End of the Cold War 198

28 From the Cold War to the War on Terror: 1989-2005 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-246) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780275985059

0275985059

OCLC:

150373116