withdrawn’s Reviews > Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State > Status Update
withdrawn
is on page 130 of 200
The question of causality (what caused national unification?) is not entirely resolved by the move to representations and meaning, however fruitful this latter analysis is proving to be. Even now, we know comparatively little about what happened to transform a vibrant cultural movement of nationalism into a clearly more compromised political programme.
— Feb 26, 2021 11:58AM
3 likes · Like flag
withdrawn’s Previous Updates
withdrawn
is on page 115 of 200
Hence, the idea of a united Italy was a political idea with little economic resonance. The economic arguments made by Risorgimento liberals in favour of national unification were, according to most economic historians, the result of wishful think- ing.
— Feb 24, 2021 05:57PM
withdrawn
is on page 98 of 200
“... Gramsci's identification of the Risorgimento with a failed bourgeois revolution cannot be sustained. He relies on a model of national development that fundamentally distorts the locally and regionally based nature of social conflict, and his analysis underestimates the problems of creating a revolutionary movement with truly national appeal....
— Feb 18, 2021 07:42PM
withdrawn
is on page 77 of 200
« That is, by dissolving the connections between society and politics, this approach has loosened the causal link between middle class and Risorgimento, and the corresponding centrality of the Risorgimento for middle-class Italy has also been downgraded. As a result, it seems impossible to explain the Risorgimento by using a class- based analysis. »
— Feb 16, 2021 11:25AM
withdrawn
is on page 40 of 200
Calls for Italian unity were, if anything, undermined by recourse to the past: ancient Rome was glorious but was characterised by civil war and factionaliom (the Republic), or by repression and decadence (the Empire). The medieval age of communal independence was heroic, but was also a period of political fragmentation and civil conflict.
— Feb 11, 2021 10:31PM
