{"product_id":"america-in-italy-9780691164854","title":"America in Italy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the 2018 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAmerica in Italy\u003c\/i\u003e] makes an extremely valuable contribution to both intellectual and cultural history by its close examination of what this diverse group of Italian intellectuals, activists, and, to a lesser degree, the Italian ‘public' understood about American life and political institutions (and the impact of this understanding on their nationalist struggle).\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Korner is perfectly positioned to undertake the ambitious task of writing a comprehensive overview of the history of the images of America in Italy between the American Revolution and the Civil War. The result of his effort is an elegantly written, extraordinarily erudite and highly innovative work, whose reading will reward both Italian and American scholars with the discovery of a multitude of cultural and political connections between eighteenth- and nineteenth century Italy and the United States.\"\u003cb\u003e---Enrico Dal Lago, \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi  A Note on References and Bibliography xvii  Introduction 1  A White Canvas 1  Where, When, and What Was America? 7  European Exchanges 9  Transatlantic Connections 13  America's Place on the Risorgimento's Map 16  Literary Tropes 25  Explaining America 31  Pamphlets, Not Muskets 37  Singing and Dancing America 40  1 America as History 42  Fratricide and Civil War 42  Histories and the Politics of Reception: Carlo Botta 46  History, Literature, and the \"Erotics of Art\" 56  Botta's Federalism of Nation-States 59  Transatlantic Botta 60  Carlo Giuseppe Londonio and the American Revolution 62  America and Universal History: Giuseppe Compagnoni 66  Historiography as Political Thought 73  2 Concepts in the Language of Politics 78  Political Ideas and National Character 78  Natural Rights and Constitutional Government 80  Luigi Angeloni and Jacobin Americanism 85  Representation in Transnational Perspective: Romagnosi and Balbo 87  Democratic Challenges and the Limits of Italian Anglophilia 93  Federalism 97  Gioberti's Federalism, or \"Britain, the Sicily of Europe\" 100  Rosmini and the Limits of American Democracy 103  Mazzini's Challenge: Democracy beyond the American Way 108  Democratic Diversions from Mazzini 112  3 A Model Republic? The United States in the Italian Revolutions of 1848 114  An Age of Constitutions: From 1820 to 1848 114  Carlo Cattaneo and the Revolution in Lombardy 121  Cattaneo's Understanding of American Democracy 130  Giuseppe Montanelli and Federal Democracy in Tuscany 138  Independence and Constitutional Models in Sicily 146  From Defeat to Annexation 160  4 Unveiling Modernity: Verdi's America and the Unification of Italy 163  Murder in Boston, Parma, and Paris 163  Un ballo and the Unification of Italy 167  Staging the New World 169  Un ballo, from Rome to the World 172  Reading Un ballo in maschera 175  Verdi's America 177  Turning Gustavo into Riccardo 185  Virgil in America 191  Verdi and \"il suo tempo\" 193  Lincoln's Un ballo 195  5 A War for Uncle Tom: Slavery and the American Civil War in Italy 199  \"Of the Foul Blood of Negroes\" 199  Slavery in Italian Political Thought 200  Slavery on Stage 206  Reading Uncle Tom 210  Italian Unification and the American Civil War 215  From Subject Nation to International Arbitrator 221  Conclusions\t225  Notes 233  Bibliography 293  Index 333","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403813232983,"sku":"9780691164854","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/america-in-italy-9780691164854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}