Cavour

by Harry Hearder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00AQ8TU1Q
• ISBN13: 9780582019034
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"