Italy's Many Diasporas

ISBN-13: 9781857285833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Donna R. Gabaccia

Opis

Italy's residents are a migratory people. Since 1800 well over 27 million left home, but over half also returned home again. As cosmopolitans, exiles and workers of the world, Italians transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled. But did they form a diaspora? Migrants maintained firm ties to native villages, cities and families. Rather than form a nation unbound, the transnational lives of Italy's migrants kept alive international and regional cultures that challenged the hegemony of national states around the world.

Recenzje

'One of the most perceptive critical syntheses in recent English-language historiography ... a fascinating reading for specialists and laypersons alike.' - International Review of Social History

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Before Italians: Making Italian culture at home and abroad 2. Making Italians at home and abroad, 1790-1893 3. Workers of the World, 1870-1914 4. Transnationalism as a way of working-class life 5. Nationalism and internationalism in Italy's proletarian diasporas, 1870 - 1914 6. Nation, empire and diaspora: Fascism and its opponents 7. Postwar Italy: from sending to receiving Nation 8. Civilta italiana and the making of multi-ethnic nations

O autorze

Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.