11 - Divide and Rule

An episode of the Talking History: The Italian Unification podcast, hosted by Benjamin & Adam Ashwell, titled "11 - Divide and Rule" was published on November 11, 2013 and runs 51 minutes.

November 11, 2013 ·51m · Talking History: The Italian Unification

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It's 1799, and Italy is fractured, politically, socially, and economically. This isn't new - it’s been fractured for over a thousand years at this point. This made it easy for Napoleon to invade in the first place, and now he is going to exploit this to keep Italy under his thumb. In this episode we’re going to see how Napoleon manages to juggle the various forces in Italy - he needs to keep things united enough to be stable, but fractured enough to be pliable.

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