Commercial Relations between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the United States, 1820-1848

All too frequently standard works on the political and economic history of nineteenth century Italy assume that a causal relationship exists between political liberalism and economic liberalism, the second being possible only after the first has been achieved. With the possible exception of Tuscany it is assumed that the peninsula was stagnating economically in the dismal gloom of latter day absolution until 1848.