Preface
List of maps
1. Society and politics in Liberal Italy
2. New political pressure groups and foreign policy
3. The making of a Foreign Minister: Antonio Di San Giuliano
4. The Consulta: the bureaucrats of foreign policy
5. How Italy went to Libya
6. How Italy stayed in Libya
7. The politics of alliance: Italy in the Triple Alliance, 1912-1914
8. The politics of friendship: Italy, the Triple Entente, and the search for a new Mediterranean agreement, 1911-1914
9. 'Un cliente maleducato': Italy in the Dodecanese and Ethiopia, 1912-1914
10. Preparing to digest some spoils: Italian policy towards Turkey, 1912-1914
11. San Giuliano's epilogue: the realities of European war 28 June to 16 October 1914
Conclusion
Appendices
Select bibliography
Notes
Index.