Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity

Author/Contributor(s):	Gemme, Paola
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	06/01/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Gemme unpacks the American cultural record on the Risorgimento not only to make sense of the U.S. engagement with the broader world but also to understand the nation's domestic preoccupations. Swayed by the myth of the United States as a model for global liberal movements, Americans saw parallels to their own history in the Risorgimento.