The Risorgimento Revisited Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy [Paperback]

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Revisiting the Risorgimento; S.Patriarca & L.Riall European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento; P.Ginsborg The Hero and the People; A.Lyttelton From the People to the Masses: Political Developments in Italian Opera from Rossini to Mascagni; S.Chiappini Discovering Politics: Action and Recollection in the First Mazzzian Generation; A.Arisi Rota? & R.Balzani Mazzini and/in Love; R.Pesman Personal and Political Passions: Mothers in the Risorgimento; M.D'Amelia A Patriotic Emotion: Shame and the Risorgimento; S.Patriarca ? Men at War: Masculinity and Military Ideals?in the Risorgimento; L.Riall The Remembrance of Heroes; A.M.Banti ? Anti-Catholicism and the Culture War in Risorgimento Italy; M.Borutta Italian Jews and the 1848-49 Revolutions: Patriotism and Multiple Identities; T.Catalan Liberalism and Empires in the Mediterranean: the Viewpoint of the Risorgimento; M.Isabella The Risorgimento: a Multi-National Movement; D.Reill BibliographyROBERTO BALZANI Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bologna, ItalyALBERTO M. BANTI Professor of History, University of Pisa, ItalyMANUEL BORUTTA Lecturer, Department of History, University of Cologne, GermanyTULLIA CATALAN Research Associate, University of Trieste, ItalySIMONETTA CHIAPPINI University of Florence, ItalyMARINA D'AMELIA Department of History, The Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyPAUL GINSBORG University of Florence, ItalyMAURIZIO ISABELLA Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary, University of London, UKADRIAN LYTTELTON Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced InlSÔ