Risorgimento in Exile - Italian Emigres Liberal International in Post napoleonic Era

Zusatztext An essential work to understand the great political and ideological currents as well as the construction of national identities of the nineteenth century Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Maurizio Isabella, Isabella Maurizio
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780199570676
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957067-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, National liberation and independence, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies