In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation’s two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.
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Introduction: Nation-Building in the Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Three Comparative Dimensions PART I: NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM AND ITALIAN DEMOCRATIC NATIONALISM 1. Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern ‘Liberators’ and Southern Laborers in the United States and Italy, 1830-1860 2. Purging Nations with Blood: John Brown, Pisacane, Social Justice, and Guerrilla Warfare PART II: LINCOLN, CAVOUR, AND ‘PROGRESSIVE NATIONALISM’ 3. Economic Progress, Markets, and Railways in Lincoln’s and Cavour’s Early Careers 4. ‘Progressive Nationalism, ‘ Politics, and National Unifications: Lincoln and Cavour after 1850 PART III: SECESSION, CIVIL WAR, AND NATION-BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITALY 5. The Specter of Confederate Secession in Early Post-Unification Italy 6. Inner Civil Wars in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861-1865
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Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861 (2005), American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. ‘Peculiar Institution’ in International Perspective (2012), and William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform (2013).
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