Albert Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg, eds. Making and Remaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity Around the Risorgimento.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)

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Albert Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg, eds. Making and Remaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity Around the Risorgimento. Oxford: Berg, 2001.

This volume, which partially originates from a conference organized by Albert Ascoli in November of 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley, examines, by way of ten interdisciplinary essays, the different uses of Risorgimento culture in Italian discourses about nation and state-building from the post-Napoleonic to the post-cold war era. Even though, as in most volumes of this kind, the merits of individual ...

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