Maurizio Isabella

Risorgimento in Exile

Italian Emigres and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570676
• ISBN-10: 0199570671
• Artikelnr.: 27386005

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Isabella is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has been a Research fellow at Birkbeck College, London, and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Who were the exiles? From Napoleonists to
Revolutionaries
* PART I: A Liberal International? The Italian Exiles and the worldwide
struggle for Freedom
* 1: A Liberal International: simultaneous revolutions and the birth of
a trans-national civil society
* 2: The Spanish Revolution, Italian volunteers and European
* 3: In Search of New Models of Heroism: Revolutionary Leadership and
Democratic Federalism in Spanish America
* 4: Greece and the regeneration of the Mediterranean
* 5: Cosmopolitan patriots: freedom and civilization as global
processes
* PART II: England and Italy Compared
* 6: English institutions and Italian Freedom
* 7: Assessing English Commercial society
* 8: Narrating the Risorgimento to the English public
* Epilogue: from Political Defeat to Memory
* Conclusions
* Biographical Appendix
* Bibliography