Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy / Enrico Dal Lago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American south.

Cambridge studies on the American south

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secession--Southern States--History--19th century.

Secession.

Secession--Italy--History--19th century.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Italy--History--19th century.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Elite (Social sciences)--Southern States--History--19th century.

Elite (Social sciences).

Elite (Social sciences)--Italy, Southern--History--19th century.

Civil war--Cross-cultural studies.

Civil war.

Confederate States of America--Politics and government.

Confederate States of America.

Italy, Southern--Politics and government--1861-1922.

Italy, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 465 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: civil war, nation-building, and agrarian unrest in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: a comparative perspective; Part I. Inner Civil Wars and National Crises, 1860-1863: 1. Preemptive counterrevolutions: the rebellions of the elites; 2. The difficult birth of two nations; 3. Inner civil wars in East Tennessee and Northern Terra di Lavoro I, 1860-1861; 4. Inner civil wars in East Tennessee and Northern Terra di Lavoro II, 1861-1863; Part II. Civil Wars and Social Revolutions, 1862-1865: 5. Revolutions: the revolts of the lower strata; 6. Civil wars and agrarian questions; 7. Social revolutions in the lower Mississippi Valley and upper Basilicata I, 1862-1863; 8. Social revolutions in the lower Mississippi Valley and upper Basilicata II, 1863-1865.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Feb 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-34028-8

1-139-81488-5

1-108-34062-8