At the Roots of Italian Identity - ''Race'' and ''Nation'' in the Italian Risorgimento, 1796-1870

Sommario

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction

1. Prologue: The ‘Primacy of the Nation.’ Vincenzo Cuoco and the Quest for Italian Identity


2. A Plural Italy? Archaeology, Linguistics, and Racial Types in the Restoration Age


3. The ‘Lombard Question’: Catholic Liberal Intelligentsia and the Racialization of the Romano-Germanic Encounter


4. On the Complexities of the Ethnogenesis: Giandomenico Romagnosi and Carlo Cattaneo on National ‘Stocks’ and Racial ‘Types’


5. Reconsidering Primacy and National Genealogies: ‘Nation’ and ‘Race’ in the Debate among Moderates, 1843-1846


6. Epilogue and Conclusions: the ‘Science of Nations’

Bibliography
Index

Riassunto

This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race in the Risorgimento nationalist intelligentsia and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edoardo Marcello Barsotti, Edoardo Marcello (University of Genoa Barsotti
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367524593
• ISBN: 978-0-367-52459-3
• Pagine: 254
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie