History A-Level
Cavour's economic statesmanship
What Cavour's economic statesmanship means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Cavour's economic statesmanship
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As minister and then prime minister, negotiating treaties, promoting free trade and securing foreign investment, making Piedmont the most economically advanced Italian state.
Topics that use Cavour's economic statesmanship
- Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 2 The rise of Piedmont, 1849–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Anticlericalism and state–Church conflict
- Cavour's political strategy and the Connubio
- Constitutional monarchy under the Statuto
- Free trade and foreign investment
- Infrastructure and transport
- Mazzini
- Piedmont
- Roman Republic
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