1st Edition
Drafting Italy Conscription and the Military from 1814 to 1914
By Marco Rovinello
Copyright 2023
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and transnational approach enables this work to compare and contrast the Italian experience with that of many other countries in the world as well as understand transfers and the adaptive and imitative processes that emerge when conscription and the military... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Redrafting the draft (1814-1859) 3. Drafting a nation, building a State (1859-1866) 4. A qualified revolution (1866-1876) 5. A greater army for an aspiring Great Power (1876-1900) 6. From peace to war (1901-1914) 7. Turning the page (1915-1918)
Biography
Marco Rovinello is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Calabria. His research has been devoted to migrations and national identity in pre-unification Southern Italy and to conscription and military justice in post-unification Italy. His published works include Cittadini senza Nazione. Migranti francesi a Napoli (1793-1860) (2009) and Fra servitù e servizio. Storia della leva in Italia dall’Unità alla Grande Guerra (2020)
