Canadian Journal of History, August 1st, 2002
by Alexander De Grand. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2000. x, 294 pp. $74.95 U.S. (cloth).
As Alexander De Grand ably demonstrates in this first full biography in English, except for Camillo Cavour, Giovanni Giolitti was the greatest prime minister in Italian history. Giolitti, who served in Parliament from 1882 until 1928, spent his entire career trying to establish a moderate and controlled liberal state that would receive the support of a majority of the Italian people. In that context, perhaps his greatest contribution was to convince the conservatives and the industrialists that the ...
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