Edoardo Marcello Barsotti (Italy University of Genoa)

At the Roots of Italian Identity

'Race' and 'Nation' in the Italian Risorgimento, 1796-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race in the Risorgimento nationalist intelligentsia and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 241mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780367524593
• ISBN-10: 0367524597
• Artikelnr.: 60594490

Autorenporträt

Edoardo Marcello Barsotti is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism in Europe and the Americas. After the completion of his MA at the University of Pisa, Italy, he received his PhD in modern history at Fordham University, New York. He currently works as a teaching associate at the Università di Genova, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Prologue: The 'Primacy of the Nation.' Vincenzo Cuoco and the Quest
for Italian Identity
2. A Plural Italy? Archaeology, Linguistics, and Racial Types in the
Restoration Age
3. The 'Lombard Question': Catholic Liberal Intelligentsia and the
Racialization of the Romano-Germanic Encounter
4. On the Complexities of the Ethnogenesis: Giandomenico Romagnosi and
Carlo Cattaneo on National 'Stocks' and Racial 'Types'
5. Reconsidering Primacy and National Genealogies: 'Nation' and 'Race'
in the Debate among Moderates, 1843-1846
6. Epilogue and Conclusions: the 'Science of Nations'
Bibliography
Index