The Risorgimento revisited: nationalism and culture in nineteenth century Italy

The Risorgimento revisited: nationalism and culture in nineteenth century Italy

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Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy. SILVANA PATRIARCA Professor of History at Fordham University in New York City, USA. She has also taught at Columbia University and the University of Florida and is the author of 'Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy' and of 'Italian Vices: Nation and Character From the Risorgimento to the Republic', both published by Cambridge University Press. LUCY RIALL Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and has heldvisiting appointments at the École Normale Supérieure Paris, the Free University Berlin and the University of Freiburg. Her publications include 'Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero' (2007) and 'Risorgimento. The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation-State' (2009). INDICE: Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Contributors - Introduction: Revisiting the Risorgimento; 'S.Patriarca' & 'L.Riall - 'European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento; 'P.Ginsborg' - The Hero and the People; 'A.Lyttelton' - From the People to the Masses: Political Developments in Italian Opera from Rossini to Mascagni; 'S.Chiappini' - Discovering Politics: Action and Recollection in the First Mazzzian Generation; 'A.Arisi Rota '& 'R.Balzani' - Mazzini and/in Love; 'R.Pesman - 'Personal and Political Passions: Mothers in the Risorgimento; 'M.D'Amelia - 'A Patriotic Emotion: Shame and the Risorgimento; 'S.Patriarca' - Men at War: Masculinity and Military Ideals in the Risorgimento; 'L.Riall' - The Remembrance of Heroes; 'A.M.Banti' - Anti-Catholicism andthe Culture War in Risorgimento Italy; 'M.Borutta - 'Italian Jews and the 1848-49 Revolutions: Patriotism and Multiple Identities; 'T.Catalan - 'Liberalismand Empires in the Mediterranean: the Viewpoint of the Risorgimento; 'M.Isabella - 'The Risorgimento: a Multi-National Movement; 'D.Reill - 'Bibliography -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-24800-7
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 344
  • Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés