Searching for the nation's soul
Conspiracy and resistance
Restoration, romanticism and revolt, 1815-30
Fractured past and fractured present
Apostles and martyrs: Mazzini and the democrats, 1830-44
Educators and reformers: the moderates
The road to Rome, 1861-70
The threat from the south, 1870-85
Sources of authority: king, church and parliament, 1870-87
Francesco Crispi and the 'New European Order', 1887-91
Rival religions: socialism and catholicism
Civil War and the advent of fascism, 1919-22
The establishment of a dictatorship, 1922-5
The fascist ethical state
A place in the sun, 1929-36
The foundations of the republic, 1943-57
The economic miracle, 1958-75
Towards the 'second republic.'