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

ISBN-13: 9780367524593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Edoardo Marcello Barsotti

Opis

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.

O autorze

Edoardo Marcello Barsotti is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism in Europe and the Americas. After the completion of his MA at the University of Pisa, Italy, he received his PhD in modern history at Fordham University, New York. He currently works as a teaching associate at the Università di Genova, Italy.