The Nation of the Risorgimento: Kinship, Sanctity, and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy

ISBN-13: 9781032235851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

Alberto Banti

Opis

This monograph is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, an important work in Italian history of recent years. It argues that Risorgimento nationalism, in contrast to the dominant views in post-1945 Italian historiography, was based mainly on an ethnic (naturalistic and deterministic) conception of the Italian nation.

Spis treści

Preface to the English edition; 

Preface to the first edition (2000); 

1. The ‘Risorgimento canon’; 

2. Morphology of the national discourse; 

3. Archaeology of the national discourse; 

4. Reception of the national discourse; 

Conclusions; 

Bibliography

O autorze

Alberto Mario Banti is Full Professor of Cultural History at the University of Pisa. His research has been devoted to the study of the idea of nation in nineteenth-century Italy and Europe; to the history of Western mentalities and cultures; and to the analysis of mass culture in twentieth-century USA. His published books include, among others,  Éros et Vertu. Le corps de femmes de Watteau à Manet (2018) and Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd (2017).