Problems faced by the Italian governments by 1900.
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- Created on: 07-04-15 19:10
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- Problems faced by the Italian governments by 1900.
- Problems in the North.
- Industrial especially engineering centres of Milan, Turin and Genoa.
- 1880s = widescale migration to growing towns
- Po Valley = area of agriculture around major river
- Medium-sized farms, commercial farming
- Problems in the centre.
- Dominated by administrative centre of Rome.
- Once ruled by the Pope; after 1870 only Vatican City remained under his rule.
- Problems in the South.
- Mezzogiorno
- Little industry
- Once 'grain basket' of Europe - by the 20th Century the soil was exhausted
- Large, inefficient noble-owned estates
- latifundia
- 1914 = 0.01% of population owned 50% of the land
- Frequent social unrest
- Powerful clans and Mafia
- Problems in agriculture.
- Majority of population were rural
- 1913 = 57% (Britain = 15%)
- A few enterprising, large landowners
- agrari
- Most small, agricultural labourers
- braccianti
- Tenant farmers, sharecroppers
- Mezzadri
- Majority of population were rural
- Dialect variations.
- 'Thursday'
- Italian = Giovedi
- Sicilian = loviri
- 'boy/child'
- Italian = bambino
- Sicilian = Picciottu
- 'Thursday'
- Regional Variations.
- Railway (kilometres)
- North = 1370km
- Centre = 360km
- South = 100km
- Road (kilometres)
- North = 38,000km
- Centre = 38,000 km
- South = 13,800 km
- Illiteracy (%)
- North = 68%
- Centre = 78%
- South = 87%
- Attendance to Primary education
- North = 80%
- Centre = 34%
- South = 18%
- Railway (kilometres)
- Statistics.
- Steel production (million tonnes)
- Italy
- 1890 = 0.1
- 1910 = 0.7
- Britain
- 1890 = 3.6
- 1910 = 6.5
- Germany
- 1890 = 2.2
- 1910 = 13.7
- France
- 1890 = 0.7
- 1910 = 3.4
- Italy
- Value of foreign trade ($ billion)
- Italy
- 1860 = 0.3
- 1913 = 1.8
- Britain
- 1860 = 2.0
- 1913 = 7.5
- Germany
- 1860 = 0.8
- 1913 = 4.3
- France
- 1860 = 0.5
- 1913 = 3.4
- Italy
- Railways (kilometres)
- Italy
- 1880 = 9290km
- 1913 = 18,873
- Britain
- 1880 = 28,846
- 1913 = 38,114
- Germany
- 1880 = 33,838km
- 1913 = 63,378
- France
- 1880 = 23,089km
- 1913 = 40,770km
- Italy
- Average hectolitres (100 l) of wheat/hectare
- Italy = 9
- France = 19
- Britain = 25
- Steel production (million tonnes)
- Problems in the North.
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