TY - BOOK AU - Riall,Lucy TI - Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866 SN - 9780191677311 (ebook) : AV - DG868.44 U1 - 945.808 22 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon KW - Liberalism KW - Italy KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Decentralization in government KW - Sicily (Italy) KW - Politics and government KW - 1815-1870 KW - 1849-1870 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In depth analysis of the impact of Italian unification on the isolated communities of rural sicily. Riall argues that government attempts to centralize administration, collect taxes and suppress peasant unrest in Sicily actually accentuated the violent factionalism of local communities UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206804.001.0001 ER -