TY - JOUR
AU - Askew, William C.
AB - Reviews of Books Mayer dutifully stresses their role in state service, PAOLO BRUNDU OLLA. L'equilibrio difficile: Gran Bre­ but even there he notes that the majority were tagna, ltalia e Francia nel Mediterraneo, 1930-1937. ennobled career civil servants of whom only the (Universita di Cagliari, Pubblicazioni della Facolta di more influential ones "continued to have links with Scienze Politiche.) Milan: Dott. A. Giuffre Editore. the land" (p. 120). As for France, Mayer consistently 1980. Pp. 245. L. 10,000. admits that it was an exception to most of his generalizations. Still there is much to be said for the This solid study, based on careful research in un­ persistence of an Old Regime world view in politics, published British and Italian documents as well as culture, and social relations in the Hohenzollern, published materials, describes unsuccessful French Habsburg, and Romanov empires. Mayer's argu­ efforts from 1929 to 1936 to align Italy and Britain ment breaks down, however, when he harps on the closely with France in a Mediterranean agreement preindustrial and prebourgeois basis of pre-1914 or "Mediterranean Locarno" that would help pre­ civil society, especially in Britain and Germany. vent German and Italian expansion. Paola Brundu Mayer believes he must 
TI - Paolo Brundu Olla. L'equilibrio difficile: Gran Bretagna, Italia e Francia nel Mediterraneo, 1930–1937. (Università di Cagliari, Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche.) Milan: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore. 1980. Pp. 245. L. 10,000
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/87.2.440
DA - 1982-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/paolo-brundu-olla-l-equilibrio-difficile-gran-bretagna-italia-e-jGHR0IqQ5W
SP - 440
EP - 441
VL - 87
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -