Garibaldis Radical Legacy - Traditions of War Volunteering in Southern Europe (18611945)

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe Garibaldi's legacy in Southern Europe between 1861 and 1945. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Fighting with Garibaldi: The First Red Shirt 2. Becoming Radicals 3. Greece, 1897: A New Generation of Red Shirts 4. Tradition Calls (Again): A Time of Crisis for Radical Garibaldinism 5. From Red Shirts to Black Shirts: Radical Garibaldinism Between the Two World Wars. Epilogue

About the author

Enrico Acciai is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he teaches global history.

Summary

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s legacy in Southern Europe between 1861 and 1945. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography.

Product details

• Authors: Enrico Acciai, Enrico (Universita Degli Studi DI Roma 'To Acciai
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367000592
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00059-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Marxism & Communism, Anarchism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General