Foreword -- Map: the Italian peninsula before unification (1848) -- Map: Italy, present day -- An overview of Italy's economic growth / Gianni Toniolo -- Italy and the first age of globalization, 1861-1940 / Harold James and Kevin H. O'Rourke -- The golden age and the second globalization in...

"Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present. They reveal the factors behind Italy's twentieth-century growth as well as how economic decline in the last thirty years has resulted in rising levels of...

Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present day. They show how, thirty years after unification, Italy began a long phase of convergence with more advanced economies so that by the late twentieth century...