Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Aemigraes and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198749066)

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 recent historiography regarding the lack of genuine liberal culture in the Risorgimento. He argues that these 'emigr駸' involvement in debates with British, continental, and American intellectuals points to the emergence of Liberalism and Romanticism as international ideologies shared by a community of patriots that stretched from Europe to Latin America.

Risorgimento in Exile represents the first effort to place Italian patriotism in a broad international framework, revealing the importance and originality of the Italian contribution to European Anglophilia and Philhellenism, and to transatlantic debates on federalism. In doing so, it demonstrates that the Risorgimento first developed as a variation upon such global trends.

Author: Maurizio Isabella
ISBN-10: 0198749066
ISBN-13: 9780198749066
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2016
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d