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The Antiquarians of the Nation
In the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation transcending regional specificities, also fostered the development of local or regional identitary consciousness. In Roussillon, this distinctive consciousness relied on a basically cultural concept of nation epitomised mainly by the Catalan language – Roussillon being composed of Catalan counties annexed to France in 1659. In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national’ (Catalan) cultural revival, and galvanised the implicit debate between (French) national history and incipient regional studies.
Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-century France
A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese. Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less well-known but equally rich Petrarchism: the nineteenth century. It considers both translations and rewritings: the former comprise not only Petrarch's celebrated Italian poetry but also his often neglected Latin works; the latter explore Petrarch's influence on and presence in French novels aswell as poetry of the period, both in and out of the canon. Nineteenth-century French Petrarchism has its r...
Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s
This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or Italianità – through migration history. It focuses on the interaction between Italians circulating around the world, and their relationship with Italy from a political and cultural perspective. Answering the important question of how migration affects Italianness, the authors explore the ways in which migrants retained their Italian culture, customs and practices during and after their travels. Spanning a long period from the Risorgimento up until the 1960s, the book sheds light on the institutions and social structures that contributed to the construction of cultural links between Italian migrants and their country of origin. Not only broad in its temporal scope, the volume covers a wide geographic area, examining the lives of Italian migrants in North America, South America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Bringing together a wealth of research on Italians, alongside the different migratory routes taken by these men and women, this book provides new insights into Italian culture and seeks to strengthen our understanding of Italian migration history.
The Europeans
'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make thei...
The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe
This volume assembles the papers presented at the conference The International Context of the Galician Language Brotherhoods and the Nationality Question in Interwar Europe (Council of Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, October 2016). The different contributions, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives. They also address the topic from different scales, blending the global and transnational outlook with the view from below, from the local contexts, with particular attention to peripheral areas, whilst East European and West European nationalities are dealt with on an equal footing, covering from Iberian Galicia to the Caucasus. Contributors are: Bence Bari, Stefan Berger, Miguel Cabo, Stefan Dyroff, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Johannes Kabatek, Joep Leerssen, Ramón Máiz, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Malte Rolf, Ramón Villares, and Francesca Zantedeschi.
Soldaten zwischen zwei Uniformen
Mehr als hunderttausend Soldaten der österreich-ungarischen Armee waren italienischer Muttersprache. Sie stammten aus dem Trentino oder dem Küstenland und kämpften im Ersten Weltkrieg im Heer des Kaiserreiches. Sie sprachen die Sprache des Feindes, weshalb sie aus nationaler Sicht als nicht vertrauenswürdig und verdächtig galten. Sie wurden hauptsächlich an die weit entfernte russische Front geschickt, wo Tausende von ihnen in Gefangenschaft gerieten. Den zwischen Österreich und Italien Zerrissenen begegnete man in beiden Ländern mit Misstrauen und in den russischen Gefangenenlagern waren sie gegensätzlichen Beeinflussungen und Versuchen nationaler Umerziehung ausgesetzt. Auf der Grundlage österreichischer und italienischer Quellen sowie von Memoiren von Soldaten werden ihre bewegten Geschichten rekonstruiert, geprägt von jahrelangem Krieg, Gefangenschaft und schwieriger Rückkehr. Anhand der Schicksale der italienischen Soldaten zeigt Andrea Di Michele die komplexen nationalen Dynamiken in den letzten Jahren des österreichisch-ungarischen Kaiserreiches.
Iconografia della destra
A partire da un’ampia gamma di fonti iconografiche (tessere, manifesti, cartoline, giornali, siti web...), Luciano Cheles ricostruisce l’evoluzione della propaganda figurativa della destra dal 1946 a oggi, interrogandosi sugli elementi di continuità e discontinuità fra il fascismo e i tre partiti che nel corso degli anni si sono passati il testimone della destra: dal Movimento Sociale Italiano a Fratelli d’Italia, passando per Alleanza Nazionale. Il volume mostra come, sotto la sua apparente “normalità”, la propaganda della destra postfascista celi spesso allusioni e precisi riferimenti rivolti a un pubblico di nostalgici capaci di riconoscerli, abituando allo stesso tempo gli italiani a una versione moderna dei valori del regime.
