Foreign Policies of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940

by Lowe, C. J.; Marzari, F.

• ISBN13: 9780415266819
• ISBN10: 0415266815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Part I
The Sixth Wheel	3	(10)
From Independence to Alliance	13	(15)
Mancini, Robilant and the Mediterranean, 1882-7	28	(19)
The Egyptian Crisis	28	(4)
Via Tripoli to Massowa	32	(3)
Massowa	35	(4)
Robilant's fortress	39	(8)
The Crispi Era	47	(22)
Crispi and France	48	(3)
Crispi, Austria and the Ottoman Empire	51	(3)
Crispi and Africa	54	(7)
The road to Adowa	61	(8)
Back from Africa	69	(43)
Rudini and the settlement with France	70	(12)
The Prinetti-Barrere agreement	82	(8)
Giolitti, Tittoni and the Entente Cordiale	90	(3)
The Moroccan Crisis	93	(3)
Italy, Austria and the Balkans	96	(9)
The Bosnian Crisis	105	(7)
The Revival of Italian Nationalism	112	(21)
Neutrality and War, 1914-15	133	(27)
Italy at the Peace Conference	160	(23)
Colonial diversions	169	(3)
Nitti and D'Annunzio	172	(5)
The Treaty of Rapallo	177	(6)
Part II
Mussolini and the New Diplomacy	183	(28)
Mussolini's ideas	183	(2)
The Near East	185	(6)
Reparations	191	(3)
The Corfu Incident	194	(6)
Towards Locarno	200	(11)
Italo-French Relations after Locarno	211	(12)
The Watch on the Brenner	223	(17)
The Four Power Pact	224	(4)
The Tardieu Plan	228	(3)
Negotiations with Austria	231	(9)
The Abyssinian War	240	(51)
The rise of the Africanisti	242	(8)
Wal-Wal	250	(5)
Diplomatic preparations	255	(28)
Sanctions	283	(8)
The Brenner Abandoned	291	(24)
Belgrade	292	(5)
The Rome-Berlin Axis	297	(12)
An opening to the West?	309	(6)
Munich and After	315	(22)
The loss of the initiative	315	(11)
The seizure of Albania	326	(5)
The Pact of Steel	331	(6)
War, 1940	337	(34)
Avoiding the catastrophe	337	(16)
A neutral bloc?	353	(9)
Intervention	362	(9)
Documents	371	(45)
Notes	416	(42)
Bibliography	458	(11)
Index	469