Publication

2018-03-15 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

119,000 words, Guess

Page Count

476 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101107038421
  • ISBN-139781107038424
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017035901
  • OCLC Control Number992784224
  • Better World Books9781107038424
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCF214
  • LCCE458 .D35 2018

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern ItalyHardcoverCambridge University Press2018-03-15

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