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Since the end of the nineteenth century, traditional historiography has emphasized the similarities between Italy and Germany as "late nations", including the parallel roles of "great men" such as Bismarck and Cavour. Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of these two "late" nations from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing national, political, and religious loyalties.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction Martin Baumeister, Philipp Lenhard, Ruth Nattermann Section 1: Concepts and Perspectives Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Italy and Germany beyond National History
Amerigo Caruso Chapter 2. Rethinking Nation and Family
Ilaria Porciani Section 2: Family and Nation Chapter 3. The Morenos between Family and Nation: Notes on the History of a Bourgeois Mediterranean Jewish family (1850-1912)
Marcella Simoni Chapter 4. Portrait of a "Political Lady": Family Ties and National Activism around 1848 in the Italian and German States
Giulia Frontoni Chapter 5. Emancipation, Religious Affiliation, and Family Status around 1900
Angelika Schaser Section 3: Religion and Education Chapter 6. The Legacy of Adam and Eve: Morality and Gender in Jewish "Catechisms" in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Philipp Lenhard Chapter 7. The Transformation of Jewish Education in Nineteenth-Century Italy: The Meaning of "Catechisms"
Silvia Guetta Chapter 8. Religion and Nation: Catholic and Protestant Female Education and Cultural Models in Germany (1871-1914)
Sylvia Schraut Chapter 9. Women for the Homeland: Comparing Catholic and Protestant Female Education in Italy (1848-1908)
Liviana Gazzetta Section 4: Politics of Women's Emancipation Chapter 10. Denomination Matters: Strategies of Self-Designation of the German Women's Movement
Anne-Laure Briatte Chapter 11. German and Italian Advocates for Women's Emancipation at the International Congress for Women's Achievements and Women's Endeavors in Berlin (1896)
Magdalena Gehring Section 5: Patriotism and Gender Chapter 12. Historian Between Two Fatherlands: Robert Davidsohn and World War I
Martin Baumeister Chapter 13. Between Motherhood and Patriotic Duty: Marital Correspondence as a Key Source for the Understanding of French-Jewish Women's Perspectives on World War I
Marie-Christin Lux Section 6: War and Violence Chapter 14. "An Expression of Horror and Sadness"? (Non)Communication of War Violence Against Civilians in Ego Documents (Austria-Hungary)
Christa Hämmerle Chapter 15. Hunger, Rape, Escape: The Many Aspects of Violence against Women and Children in the Territories of the Italian Front
Nadia Maria Filippini Section 7: War Experience and Memory Chapter 16. The Construction of the Enemy in Two Jewish Writers: Carolina Coen Luzzatto and Enrica Barzilai Gentilli
Tullia Catalan Chapter 17. Heroic Fathers, Patriotic Mothers, Fallen Sons: National Belonging and Political Positioning in Italian-Jewish Families' Versions of World War I
Ruth Nattermann Chapter 18. The Commemoration of Jewish Soldiers in Austria
Gerald Lamprecht Index
About the author
Martin Baumeister is Director of the German Historical Institute in Rome.
Philipp Lenhard is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
Ruth Nattermann is Assistant Professor at the Department of European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She has been principal investigator of the international DFG-network of scholars “Gender – Nation – Emancipation”.
Summary
Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.
