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Author Isabella, Maurizio.

Title Risorgimento in exile : Italian émigrés and the liberal international in the post-Napoleonic era / Maurizio Isabella
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
Contents Introduction: Who were the exiles? From Napoleonists to revolutionaries -- pt. 1. A liberal international? The Italian exiles and the worldwide struggle for freedom -- A liberal international : simultaneous revolutions and the birth of a transnational civil society -- The Spanish Revolution and European freedom -- In search of new models of heroism : revolutionary leadership and democratic federalism in Spanish America -- Greece and the regeneration of the Mediterranean -- Cosmopolitan patriots : freedom and civilization as global processes -- pt. 2. England and Italy compared -- English institutions and Italian freedom -- Assessing English commercial society -- Narrating the Risorgimento to the British public -- Epilogue
Summary 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 --eacute--;migr--eacute--;s' involvement in debates with British, continental, and American intellectuals points to the emergence of Liberalism and Rom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Exiles -- History -- 19th century
Liberalism -- History -- 19th century
Cosmopolitanism -- History -- 19th century
Intellectuals -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Political culture -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Patriotism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
Cosmopolitanism
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Exiles
Intellectuals
International relations
Liberalism
Patriotism
Political culture
Ballingen.
Politieke cultuur.
Liberalisme.
Italienare i utlandet -- 1800-talet.
SUBJECT Italy -- History -- 1815-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068960
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century
Italy -- Relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Relations -- Italy
Subject Great Britain
Italy
Italië.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191571411
0191571415
0191721999
9780191721991