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The economy of liberal Italy: a roundtable discussion with Brian A'Hearn, Nick Carter, Giovanni Federico and Vera Zamagni on Stefano Fenoaltea's The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20111

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

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The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War is the first major study of the liberal Italian economy to appear in English for more than 20 years. It is also the first based on new statistical reconstructions of industrial and aggregate development for the period. Above all, the book represents the culmination of over four decades of ‘painstaking, meticulous, sophisticated and innovative research by one of Italy's finest economic historians' (Toniolo 2007, 130).

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