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At the roots of Italian identity

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Statement Of Responsibility A:
Edoardo Marcello Barsotti.
Creator Main A:
Barsotti, Edoardo Marcello, author
Imprint Main A:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Resource Type A:
Book
Physical Media A:
Online

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This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian Risorgimento and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity.

The author argues that the racialization of the Italians dates back to the early Napoleonic age and that naturalistic racialism--or race-thinking based on the taxonomies of the natural history of man--emerged well before the traditionally presumed date of the late 1860s and the advent of positivist anthropology.

The book draws upon a wide number of sources including the work of Vincenzo Cuoco, Giuseppe Micali, Adriano Balbi, Alessanro Manzoni, Giandomenico Romagnosi, Cesare Balbo, Vincenzo Gioberti, and Carlo Cattaneo. Themes explored include links to antiquity on the Italian peninsula, archaeology, and race-thinking.

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Contents

The 'Primacy of the Nation.' Vincenzo Cuoco and the Quest for Italian Identity -- A Plural Italy? Archaeology, Linguistics, and Racial Types in the Restoration Age -- The 'Lombard Question': Catholic Liberal Intelligentsia and the Racialization of the Romano-Germanic Encounter -- On the Complexities of the Ethnogenesis: Giandomenico Romagnosi and Carlo Cattaneo on National 'Stocks' and Racial 'Types' -- Reconsidering Primacy and National Genealogies: 'Nation' and 'Race' in the Debate among Moderates, 1843-1846 -- The 'Science of Nations.'

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Series:
Routledge studies in the modern history of Italy
Published:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
©2021
Language:
English
Access Restriction:
Taylor & Francis eBooks Multi-User TAFUU
Biographical Sketch of Creators:
Edoardo Marcello Barsotti is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism in Europe and the Americas. After the completion of his MA at the University of Pisa, Italy, he received his PhD in modern history at Fordham University, New York. He currently works as a teaching associate at the Università di Genova, Italy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description:
1 online resource ( 252 pages) : illustrations.
Description Details:
File type: text file
Genre or Form:
Electronic books
ISBN:
9781003058045
1003058043
9781000331332
1000331334
1000331296
9781000331370
1000331377
9781000331295
9780367524593
OCLC Number:
1191456059
Other Identifiers:
LCCN: 2020037517
System ID:
009966497

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