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This book explores the evolution of the role of the heirs to the throne of Italy between 1860 and 1900. It focuses on the future kings Umberto I (1844-1900) and Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), and their respective spouses, Margherita of Savoia (1851-1926) and Elena of Montenegro (1873-1952). It sheds light on the soft power the Italian royals were attempting to generate, by identifying and examining four specific areas of monarchical activity: firstly, the heirs’ public role and the manner in which they attempted to craft an Italian identity through a process of self-presentation; secondly, the national, royal, linguistic and military education of the heirs; thirdly, the promotion of a family-centred dynasty deploying both male and female elements in the public realm; and finally the readiness to embrace different modes of mobility in the construction of italianità. By analysing the growing importance of the royal heirs and their performance on the public stage in post-Risorgimento Italy, this study investigates the attempted construction of a cohesive national identity through the crown and, more specifically, the heirs to the throne.
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).
Die Nationalstaaten des späten 19. Jahrhunderts mußten nach ihrer äußeren Entstehung einen inneren Konsens, ein Nationalgefühl generieren. Dieser langwierige und konfliktreiche Prozeß vollzog sich auch in Italien in besonderem Maße in den Schulen. Die Studie untersucht anhand der Schulgeschichtsbücher Inhalte und Ergebnisse dieses Nationalisierungsprozesses zwischen Risorgimento und Faschismus, exemplifiziert an der Gestalt Camillo Cavours. Sie zeigt erstmals Elemente der staatlichen Selbstdarstellung in den Schulen ebenso auf wie das zwiespältige Resultat dieser Erziehung zum nationalen Konsens. Abgerundet wird die Darstellung durch eine Einführung in die Geschichte des italienischen Schulwesens und Anhänge zu den Schulgeschichtsbüchern und deren Autoren.
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