Day: September 22, 2015

Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); Spread of Marxian Socialism (Part 5)

Nationalism: state-building in Italy (Part 1) Background For many centuries, the Italian peninsula was a politically fragmented conglomeration of states. When war broke out between Austria and the Revolutionary French Government in 1792, the French invaded the Italian peninsula, consolidated many of the Italian states, and established them as republics. selfstudyhistory.com In 1799 the Austrian […]