| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
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Italian American radicalism : old world roots, new world developments -- The sovversivi and their cultural world -- A literary class war : the Italian American radical press -- Politics and leisure : the Italian American radical stage -- Italian American literary radicalism -- Arturo Giovannitti : poet and prophet of labor -- Allegories of anti-fascism : the radical cartoons of Fort Velona |
| Summary |
Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a fascinating portrait of their political struggle as well as their milieu, beliefs, and artistic creativity in the United States. As early as 1882, the sovversivi founded a socialist club in Brooklyn. Radical organizations then multiplied and spread across the country, from large urban cities to smaller industrial mini |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-267) and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2024) |
| Subject |
Giovannitti, Arturo M., 1884-1959.
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Giovannitti, Arturo M., 1884-1959 |
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Italian Americans -- Politics and government -- History -- 19th century
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Italian Americans -- Politics and government -- History -- 20th century
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Italian Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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Italian Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Italian American literature -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Italian American literature
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Italian Americans -- Intellectual life
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Italian Americans -- Politics and government
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Radicalism
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010048336 |
| ISBN |
9780814709443 |
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0814709443 |
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9780814723180 |
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0814723187 |
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