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Author Donati, Sabina

Title A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861-1950
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Main Text; Introduction; Chapter 1. National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the Origins of Italian Monarchical Subjecthood (1859-1866); Part One. Historical Developments During the Liberal Period (1866-1922); Chapter 2. "Becoming Visible": Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State; Chapter 3. Foreign Immigration, Citizenship and Italianità in the Peninsula: Italiani non regnicoli, Non-Italian Immigrants and Notions of Alienhood
Chapter 4. "O migranti o briganti": Italian Emigration and Nationality Policies in the PeninsulaChapter 5. Liberal Italy's Expansionism and Citizenship Issues (1880s-1922): Colonial Subjects, Citizens of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and Dodecanesini; Part Two. Historical Evolution During the Fascist Epoch (1922-1945); Chapter 6. Citizenship of Women and Their Counterpart Throughout the Ventennium; Chapter 7. Fascist Italy's Colonized, Annexed and Occupied Territories: Citizenship Policies and Native Populations in Mussolini's Roman Empire
Chapter 8. The Armistice of 8 September, Brindisi and Salò: Reflections on Citizenship Issues (1943-1945)Chapter 9. The Birth and First Developments of Italy's Democratic Republican Citizenship (1946-1950); Conclusion: National Citizenship and Italianità in Historical Perspective; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations. Using little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the policies, debates, and formal notions of Italian national citizenship with a view to grasping the multi-faceted, evolving, and often contested vision(s) of italianità. In her study, these disparate visions are brought into co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-394) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Citizenship -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Citizenship -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, Italian -- History -- 19th century
National characteristics, Italian -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship
National characteristics, Italian
Politics and government
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007834
Italy -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069010
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804787338
0804787336