Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Italy Book

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	Preface
1	Italy in the classical world	1
1	Prehistoric Italy	1
2	The Greeks, the Etruscans and the arrival of the Romans	6
3	The Roman Republic, c. 509 B.C.-A.D. 313	12
4	The Roman Empire, A.D. 313-c. 400	26
2	The early Middle Ages	38
1	Barbarian invasions and Byzantine Italy, c. 400-c. 600	38
2	Lombard Italy and the foundation of the Papal States, c. 600-800	43
3	The Empire and the Papacy, 800-1216	49
4	Venice and her maritime empire, c. 600-c. 1300	59
3	The high Middle Ages	66
1	Sicily under the Normans and Frederick II, 1130-1250	66
2	The city-states and the republics	72
3	The decline of the Papacy and the Avignon period, 1216-1378	83
4	Cultural achievements in the age of Giotto, Dante and Petrarch	89
4	The Renaissance	96
1	The Black Death and the economic recovery of the fifteenth century	96
2	Humanism and the impact of printing	103
3	Florence under the Medici and the Republic	112
4	The High Renaissance: artists and their patrons in Rome, Milan, Venice and Naples	119
5	The political and cultural eclipse of Italy	126
1	The foreign invasions and wars of the sixteenth century	126
2	The Counter-Reformation and the Spanish period	132
3	The Austrian period and the return to Europe	141
4	The military state of Savoy and its dynasty	147
6	The Risorgimento, 1790-1861	153
1	The Napoleonic and Restoration eras, 1790-1821	153
2	Italian nationalism and the role of Mazzini, 1821-49	164
3	Cavour and the europeanization of the Italian Question, 1852-9	178
4	Garibaldi and the achievement of unity, 1859-61	187
7	From Unification to Fascism, 1861-1922	198
1	The first years of unity and the era of Depretis and Crispi, 1861-96	198
2	Giolitti's building of democracy, 1892-1914	208
3	The First World War: neutrality, intervention, and victory, 1914-19	212
4	Socialist failure and the advent of Fascism, 1890-1922	218
8	The Fascist disaster, 1922-45	225
1	The establishment of the dictatorship, 1922-9	225
2	Isolation and triumph in foreign policy, 1925-36	230
3	The alliance with Germany: neutrality and entry into the Second World War, 1936-40	235
4	Defeat and the collapse of Fascism, 1940-5	239
9	Italy since the Second World War, 1945-80	244
1	The resistance and the establishment of the Republic, 1944-7	244
2	The economic recovery and the predominance of Christian Democracy, 1947-58	250
3	Communism in Italy and its relations in Western and Eastern Europe since 1956	256
	Epilogue: From the First to the Second Republic: Italy 1980-2001	263
	A brief guide to further reading	277
	Index	280