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- Preface to the English edition
- Introduction
- I. Railways and the Risorgimento
- 1. Transport in the early 19th century
- 2. “The spirit of Italian nationality”
- 3. The arrival of “steam trains” in the preunification
states
- 4. The train service
- 5. Soldiers on the trains
- II. A national “network”
- 1. The era of big building works
- 2. Secondary railways and tramways
- 3. Economic progress
- 4. The modernization of cities and countryside
- 5. Traveling in united Italy
- III. The state and railways
- 1. The “law of the big groups” (1865) and the
“parliamentary revolution” (1876)
- 2. The “agreements” (1885)
- 3. Riccardo Bianchi and the state company
(1905)
- 4. The Great War
- 5. Railway workers between trade unions and
politics
- IV. The “trains on time” during the fascist
period
- 1. Purging and restructuring
- 2. Traffic growth and road competition
- 3. Electric trains and “littorine”
- 4. The “direttissime”
- 5. The “popular trains”
- V. Reconstruction and the “Settebello”
- 1. Between mines and bombs
- 2. It’s time to travel again
- 3. The “luxury” train
- 4. The “transportation for the poor”
- 5. Loss of traffic and technological lag
- VI. End of the “old” and arrival of the “new”
railway
- 1. The “direttissima” Rome-Florence
- 2. The “railway renaissance”
- 3. The return of private management
- 4. Liberalization of train services
- 5. Trains and railways for the 21st century,
towards Europe
- Index of names
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