Italy was a marginal member of the Great Power system in 189
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Italy was a marginal member of the Great Power system in 1890, but Japan wasn’t even in the club. For centuries it had been ruled by a decentralized feudal oligarchy consisting of territorial lords (daimyo) and an aristocratic caste of warriors (samurai).
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914