America in Italy (eBook)

The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865

Axel Korner (Autor)

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2017
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8781-1 (ISBN)

Infos

America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel Korner shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but he focuses on the important distinction that while European interest in developments across the Atlantic was keen, this attention was not blind admiration. Rather, America became a sounding board for the critical assessment of societal changes at home.Many Italians did not think the United States had lessons to teach them and often concluded that life across the Atlantic was not just different but in many respects also objectionable. In America, utopia and dystopia seemed to live side by side, and Italian references to the United States were frequently in support of progressive or reactionary causes. Political thinkers including Cesare Balbo, Carlo Cattaneo, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Antonio Rosmini used the United States to shed light on the course of their nation's political resurgence. Concepts from Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Vico served to evaluate what Italians discovered about America. Ideas about American "e;domestic manners"e; were reflected and conveyed through works of ballet, literature, opera, and satire.Transcending boundaries between intellectual and cultural history, America in Italy is the first book-length examination of the influence of America's political formation on modern Italian political thought.

Autor

Axel Körner is professor of modern history at University College London and director of the UCL Centre for Transnational History. His books include Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy and America Imagined.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones. 1 map.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1848 Revolutions • abolitionism • Abraham Lincoln • America • American Civil War • American democracy • American Revolution • American Revolutionary War • americans • American War of Independence • Annexation • Antonio Rosmini • Antonio Rosmini Serbati • aristocracy • assassination • ballet Bianchi e Neri • Ballo • Bibliography • British Empire • Carlo Botta • Carlo Cattaneo • Carlo Giuseppe Londonio • Censorship • Cesare Balbo • Cesare Beccaria • Civilization • Civil Society • Classical tradition • Colonization • Constitution • Constitutional Government • Criticism • Cultural imagination • Democracy • democracy in America • despotism • domestic manners • Duchy • Europe • Federalism • feudalism • Filangieri • Font Bureau • French Revolution of 1848 • Giacomo Leopardi • Giambattista Vico • Giuseppe Compagnoni • Giuseppe Mazzini • Giuseppe Montanelli • Giuseppe Rota • Giuseppe Verdi • Government • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Historiography • Holy Roman Empire • Il Risorgimento (newspaper) • Il Trovatore • International Relations • Italian ballet • Italian historians • italian opera • Italian Parliament • italian peninsula • Italians • Italian unification • Italian writing • Italy • James Fenimore Cooper • King of Italy • La Nazione • La Scala • Latin America • Legislation • Legitimists • Liberalism • Libretto • Literature • Lombardy • Marco Minghetti • Modernity • Montesquieu • Nabucco • Napoleon • Napoleon III • National Movement (Poland) • nation state • Natural Rights • newspaper • New World • Nobility • Northern Italy • Opera • Opera Seria • Pamphlet • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Philosopher • Philosophy of History • Political culture • political experience • Political Institutions • Political Philosophy • Political representation • Political Science • Political thought • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • popular sovereignty • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Radicals (UK) • Republic • Republicanism • Republic of Genoa • Revolution • revolutions of 1848 • Rigoletto • Risorgimento • Self-determination • sicily • Simon Boccanegra • Slavery • Social changes • Suffrage • Supporter • Tax • Tuscany • Ugo Foscolo • Un Ballo in Maschera • uncle tom • Uncle Tom's Cabin • United States • United States constitution • united states declaration of independence • United States of America • U.S. Constitution • Vincenzo Bellini • war • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8781-X / 140088781X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8781-1 / 9781400887811