How Far Do You Agree That the Revolutions Within the Italian States Failed Because They Were Too Localised?

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How far do you agree that the revolutions within the Italian states failed because they were too localised? I acknowledge that to some extent localism played a role in the failure in the 1820’s and 30’s revolutions within the Italian states. However I also recognise that there were other factors that played major if not bigger roles, such as the minimal amount of public support or the lack of involvement from the French. However I do believe it was the involvement of Austria that played the greatest role in the failure of the revolutions. In the context of the question, localism played an irrefutably large role in the failure of the revolutions. Due to the prior collapse of the Napoleonic Empire it was necessary to decide whereabouts the power over the different states would reside. It was decided at the treaty of Vienna that former Monarchies and States would be reinstated. Following this each state would then find its own source of tribulation and from that public discontent would arise leading to a number of attempted revolutions, all of which would later fail. One of the causes of these failures was that the discontent that prompted the people to initiate a revolution was in most cases of a local nature meaning that revolutionaries in different states would have had very little if not no incentive to come to each other’s aid. For example the temporary revolutionary government established in Bologna actually refused the Modenese revolutionaries pleas for help. This is hardly surprising when we consider how locally orientated the aims of the revolutionaries were, for example one of the main reasons for the attempted revolution in Sicily was to attain independence from Naples to which it had being forcibly united with in 1815, this was something that people outside of Sicily would have cared very little about if at all. Because of the fact that many of the
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