Unitary kingdom proclaimed in 1861 under Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, completing the Risorgimento unification of the Italian peninsula and later pursuing colonial expansion and, under Mussolini, Fascist dictatorship.
Abolished on 18 June 1946 after a June 2 institutional referendum rejected the monarchy in the wake of Fascist defeat in World War II, giving way to the Italian Republic.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Kingdom of Italy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1861 · 1905 · 1934 · 1941 · 1943 · 1945.
Critical single-volume history of Italian unification and the kingdom's subsequent history through to the present, skeptical of Risorgimento myth-making.
Standard academic account of the national movement that produced the 1861 kingdom, covering the process down to its consolidation.