A political history of national citizenship and identity in Italy, 1861-1950 / Sabina Donati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donati, Sabina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Italy--History--19th century.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Italy--History--20th century.

National characteristics, Italian--History--19th century.

National characteristics, Italian.

National characteristics, Italian--History--20th century.

Italy--Politics and government--19th century.

Italy.

Italy--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 406 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 conversation with contemporary scholarship pertaining to alienhood, racial thinking, migration, expansionism, and gender. As the first English-language book on the modern history of Italian citizenship, this work highlights often-overlooked precedents, continuities, and discontinuities within and between liberal and fascist Italies. It invites the reader to compare the Italian experiences with other European ones, such as French, British, and German citizenship traditions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in the Main Text

Introduction

chapter one. National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the Origins of Italian Monarchical Subjecthood (1859–1866)

chapter two. “Becoming Visible” Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State

chapter three. Foreign Immigration, Citizenship and Italianità in the Peninsula

chapter four. “O migranti o briganti”

chapter five. Liberal Italy’s Expansionism and Citizenship Issues (1880's–1922)

chapter six. Citizenship of Women and Their Counterpart Throughout the Ventennium

chapter seven. Fascist Italy’s Colonized, Annexed and Occupied Territories

chapter eight. The Armistice of 8 September, Brindisi and Salò

chapter nine. 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

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-394) and index.

ISBN:

9780804787338

0804787336

OCLC:

854975176