Marina (Universitat Bern, Switzerland) Cattaruzza 
Italy and Its Eastern Border, 1866-2016 [PDF ebook] 

This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the profound impact that events on the border had on the core of the country.