Guerra di Crimea: memorie nazionali e processi di democratizzazione
Journal: Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900
Year: 2021

Proposing a transnational and comparative approach, this contribution analyzes (especially for Great Britain and Sardinian/Italian kingdom) how the public use of the memory of the Crimean War was projected on the XIX th century society thanks to the mediatic and symbolic involvement of the state, the army and the public opinion. The conflict had profound political and memorial repercussions, with consequences on the side of cultural history, national identities, collective imaginaries. New forms