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La prima guerra civile : rivolte e repressione nel Mezzogiorno dopo l'Unità d'Italia
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Many know the Risorgimento as the process that led to Italian unification, but few realize that, immediately after 1861, the newly formed Italian state was the scene of a brutal civil war erased from collective memory. In this passionate and precise essay, historian Gianni Oliva brings to light the events that followed the annexation of the South by the Kingdom of Sardinia, resulting in the so-called "Piedmontization" of the entire country. The imposition of the Savoy laws, the centralization of political power in the hands of the Piedmontese, and the systematic use of force to govern the South sparked a wave of popular revolts. These uprisings, labeled "brigandage," were actually a civil war that involved two-thirds of the Italian army and claimed more victims than the three wars of independence combined. Without falling into neo-Bourbon rhetoric or historical self-absolution, Oliva concludes that the Risorgimento was indeed necessary, but the construction of the state and national identity could, and should, have followed a different path. "Briganti" not only recounts a piece of history that has remained in the shadows, but helps us understand the deep roots of some fractures that still exist in Italy today.
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