A Carefully Planned Accident: The Italian War of 1859In July 1858, Count Cavour, prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, met Napoleon III to plot the provocation of war with Austria, the result of which would be the complete expulsion of Habsburg power from Italy and the creation of an Italian confederation. This work describes the means whereby diplomacy was utilized to precipitate the war and traces its continuing role during and after the hostilities. |
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Key to Abbreviations | 16 |
The Road to Plombières | 17 |
Plombières | 27 |
From Plombières to the Treaties of January | 55 |
Attempts to Forestall | 71 |
Diplomacy during the | 106 |
Appendix | 164 |
Notes Bibliography Index 9 11 PH36 13 16 17 27 | 170 |
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