At the Roots of Italian Identity
Edoardo Marcello Barsotti
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At the Roots of Italian Identity

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

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This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian Risorgimento and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity.The author argues that the racialization of the Italians dates back to the early Napoleonic age and that naturalistic racialism-or race-thinking based on the taxonomies of the natural history of man-emerged well before the traditionally presumed date of the late 1860s and the advent of positivist anthropology.The book draws upon a wide number of sources includi...