The age of Lincoln and Cavour : comparative perspectives on nineteenth-century American and Italian nation-building / Enrico Dal Lago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Influence.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861.

Nation-building.

Cross-cultural studies.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

United States.

Politics and government.

Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861--Influence.

Cavour, Camillo Benso.

Italy--Politics and government--1849-1870.

Italy.

Nation-building--Cross-cultural studies.

United States--History--1815-1861.

History.

Italy--History--1849-1870.

Physical Description:

viii, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contents:

Part I. Nineteenth-century American abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism

Radicalism and nationalism: northern "liberators" and southern laborers in the United States and Italy, 1830-1860

Purging nations with blood: John Brown, Pisacane, social justice, and guerrilla warfare

Part II. Lincoln, Cavour, and "progressive nationalism"

Economic progress, markets, and railways in Lincoln's and Cavour's early careers

"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

The specter of Confederate secession in early post-unification Italy

Inner civil wars in the Confederate south and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861-1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137485427

1137485426

OCLC:

890622007