Risorgimento in exile
Subtitle: Italian émigrés and the liberal international in the post-Napoleonic era
By: Maurizio Isabella.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780199570676
Subjects: Italy -- History -- 1815-1870; Exiles -- History -- 19th century; Liberalism -- History -- 19th century; Cosmopolitanism -- History -- 19th century; Intellectuals -- Italy -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- Italy -- History -- 19th century; Patriotism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century; Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century; Italy -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- Italy
Description: The experience of exiles was fundamental for shaping Italian national identity. 'Risorgimento in Exile' investigates the contribution to Italian nationalism made by the numerous patriots who were forced to live in exile following failed revolutions in the Italian states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Who were the exiles? From Napoleonists to revolutionaries; title: pt. 1. A liberal international? The Italian exiles and the worldwide struggle for freedom; title: A liberal international : simultaneous revolutions and the birth of a transnational civil society; title: The Spanish Revolution and European freedom; title: In search of new models of heroism : revolutionary leadership and democratic federalism in Spanish America; title: Engaging in the politics of the Mexican Revolution; title: Greece and the regeneration of the Mediterranean; title: Ugo Foscolo, the Ionian Islands, and Parga's cession; title: Italian and British philhellenisms at odds : national project or civilizing mission?; title: Italy and Greece as Mediterranean sisters; title: The legacy : Santarosa and the creation of a Philhellenic icon; title: Cosmopolitan patriots : freedom and civilization as global processes; title: Civilization as a global phenomenon; title: Re-establishing the balance of power in Europe; title: Towards a Kantian understanding of the international order; title: pt. 2. England and Italy compared; title: English institutions and Italian freedom; title: "Naturally free" : English national character and society; title: English politics : parties, elections, and institutions; title: Keeping the Catholic Church at bay : exile liberalism and the Irish question; title: The shortcomings of English political life; title: Can freedom be exported? The British Constitution, foreign models, and Italian freedom; title: Conclusions: Exile liberalism, Anglophilia, and the Risorgimento; title: Assessing English commercial society; title: Giuseppe Pecchio's "scienza dell'amor patrio"; title: Addressing poverty in a commercial society : Giovanni Arrivabene, charitable institutions, and the reform of the poor laws; title: Towards republican commercial societies : GianBattista Marochetti and the defence of virtue; title: Narrating the Risorgimento to the British public; title: Auto-ethnography and the Risorgimento : responding to the Grand Tour; title: Influencing British perceptions of the Italian question; title: Epilogue: From political defeat to memory; title: Exile and national consciousness; title: Exile and the Risorgimento; title: Biographical appendix.