Contents

Chapter 1: The Apprenticeship of a Statesman, 1842-1892

Chapter 2: A Disastrous Beginning: The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, 1892-1893

Chapter 3: Into the Wilderness: Giolitti in Opposition, 1894–1901

Chapter 4: The Zanardelli-Giolitti Government

Chapter 5: Giolitti's Second Ministry: Doing it "Right", 1903-1905

Chapter 6: The Long Ministry, 1906 - 1909: The Heyday of the Giolittian System

Chapter 7: Domestic Reform and War, 1910 - 1914

Chapter 8: A Second Political Exile, 1914-1920

Chapter 9: Giolitti and the Crises of the Liberal State, 1920-1928

Chapter 10: Conclusion