Cavour (Profiles In Power)

Hearder, Harry

ISBN 10: 0582019036 ISBN 13: 9780582019034

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Cavour was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, still reeling from military humiliation by Austria, he turned his backward and insignificant home state into the nucleus of the new Italy by his astute manipulation of the European great powers, becoming the united country's first prime minister in the year of his death, 1861. Harry Hearder's incisive study, setting Cavour and the Risorgimento in the full context of international European power-politics, reveals a ruthless, egocentric and far from balanced man - but a politician of genius.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Born in Turin in 1810, Cavour abandoned an early military career because of his uncomfortable liberal opinions, to concentrate initially on restoring his family estates. After travels in France and England, he was drawn increasingly into the politics of his native Piedmont-then a backward and insignificant state, still reeling from comprehensive military defeat by Austria, the major occupying power of northern Italy. In 1852 he became its prime minister.

About the Author:

Harry Hearder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales. He was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer successively in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics, and he was Professor of Modern History at University College, Cardiff.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0582019036
• ISBN 13: 9780582019034
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238