The Risorgimento Revisited [electronic resource] : Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy /
Patriarca, S.editor.
Riall, L.editor.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : revisiting the Risorgimento / S. Patriarca & L.Riall -- European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento / Paul Ginsborg -- The hero and the people / Adrian Lyttelton -- From the people to the masses : political developments in Italian opera from Rossini to Mascagni / Simonetta Chiappina -- Discovering politics : action and recollection in the first Mazzzian generation / Arianna Arisi Rota and Roberto Balzani -- Mazzini and/in love / Ros Pesman -- Personal and political passions : mothers in the Risorgimento / Marina D'Amelia -- A patriotic emotion : shame and the Risorgimento / Silvana Patriarca -- Men at war : masculinity and military ideals in the Risorgimento / Lucy Riall -- The remembrance of heroes / Alberto M. Banti -- Anti-catholicism and the culture war in Risorgimento Italy / Manuel Borutta -- Italian Jews and the 1848-49 revolutions : patriotism and multiple identities / Tullia Catalan -- Liberalism and empires in the Mediterranean : the viewpoint of the Risorgimento / Maurizio Isabella -- The Risorgimento : a multi-national movement / Dominique Reill.
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.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Italy-History.
Social history.
World politics.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Italy.
Social History.
Political History.