RISORGIMENTO IN EXILE by Maurizio Isabella ( 9780199570676 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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RISORGIMENTO IN EXILE
ITALIAN EMIGRES AND THE LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL IN THE POST-NAPOLEONIC ERA

By:

Maurizio Isabella

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

27 August, 2009

Pages:

298

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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. Examining the writings of such exiles, Maurizio Isabella challenges existing historiography regarding the lack of genuine liberal culture in the Risorgimento. He argues that these emigres' involvement in debates with British, continental, and American intellectuals points to the emergence of Liberalism and Romanticism as international ideologies shared by a community of patriots that stretched from Europe to Latin America. Risorgimento in Exile represents the first effort to place Italian patriotism in a broad international framework, revealing the importance and originality of the Italian contribution to European Anglophilia and Philhellenism, and to transatlantic debates on federalism. In doing so, it demonst

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Winner of Declared proxime accessit for the Royal Historical Society

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