ABSTRACT
Italy takes an important place, second only to that of Russia and possibly Austria, among the individual countries specifically investigated by Gerschenkron within the framework of his general approach to European industrialization during the nineteenth century. To the Italian case he devoted three important papers (Gerschenkron 1962:52-89, 90-118, 1968:98-127) and the effort of constructing an ad hoc index of industrial production (Gerschenkron 1962:367-421).
