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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787314703321

Autore

Donati Sabina

Titolo

A political history of national citizenship and identity in Italy, 1861-1950 [[electronic resource] /] / Sabina Donati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8733-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 406 pages)

Disciplina

323.60945/09041

Soggetti

Citizenship - Italy - History - 19th century

Citizenship - Italy - History - 20th century

National characteristics, Italian - History - 19th century

National characteristics, Italian - History - 20th century

Italy Politics and government 19th century

Italy Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in the Main Text -- Introduction -- chapter one. National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the Origins of Italian Monarchical Subjecthood (1859–1866) -- chapter two. “Becoming Visible” Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State -- chapter three. Foreign Immigration, Citizenship and Italianità in the Peninsula -- chapter four. “O migranti o briganti” -- chapter five. Liberal Italy’s Expansionism and Citizenship Issues (1880's–1922) -- chapter six. Citizenship of Women and Their Counterpart Throughout the Ventennium -- chapter seven. Fascist Italy’s Colonized, Annexed and Occupied Territories -- chapter eight. The Armistice of 8 September, Brindisi and Salò -- chapter nine. The Birth and First Developments of Italy’s Democratic Republican Citizenship (1946–1950) -- conclusion. National Citizenship and Italianità in Historical Perspective -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until



just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations. Using little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the policies, debates, and formal notions of Italian national citizenship with a view to grasping the multi-faceted, evolving, and often contested vision(s) of italianità. In her study, these disparate visions are brought into conversation with contemporary scholarship pertaining to alienhood, racial thinking, migration, expansionism, and gender. As the first English-language book on the modern history of Italian citizenship, this work highlights often-overlooked precedents, continuities, and discontinuities within and between liberal and fascist Italies. It invites the reader to compare the Italian experiences with other European ones, such as French, British, and German citizenship traditions.