282 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Italy's residents are a migratory people. Since 1800 well over 27 million left home, but over half also returned home again. As cosmopolitans, exiles, and 'workers of the world' they transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled abroad. But did they form a diaspora? Migrants maintained firm ties to native villages, cities and families. Few felt much loyalty... Read more
Introduction 1. Before Italians: Making Italian culture at home and abroad 2. Making Italians at home and abroad, 1790-1893 3. Workers of the World, 1870-1914 4. Transnationalism as a way of working-class life 5. Nationalism and internationalism in Italy's proletarian diasporas, 1870 - 1914 6. Nation, empire and diaspora: Fascism and its opponents 7. Postwar Italy: from sending to receiving Nation 8. Civilta italiana and the making of multi-ethnic nations
Biography
Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
'One of the most perceptive critical syntheses in recent English-language historiography ... a fascinating reading for specialists and laypersons alike.' - International Review of Social History
