Civil War and Agrarian Unrest

The Confederate South and Southern Italy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Enrico Dal Lago, Galway) Dal Lago, Enrico (National University of Ireland

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Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-15
Mått165 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt770 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
Antal sidor476
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107038424

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Introduction: civil war, nation-building, and agrarian unrest in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: a comparative perspective; Part I. Inner Civil Wars and National Crises, 1860–1863: 1. Preemptive counterrevolutions: the rebellions of the elites; 2. The difficult birth of two nations; 3. Inner civil wars in East Tennessee and Northern Terra di Lavoro I, 1860–1861; 4. Inner civil wars in East Tennessee and Northern Terra di Lavoro II, 1861–1863; Part II. Civil Wars and Social Revolutions, 1862–1865: 5. Revolutions: the revolts of the lower strata; 6. Civil wars and agrarian questions; 7. Social revolutions in the lower Mississippi Valley and upper Basilicata I, 1862–1863; 8. Social revolutions in the lower Mississippi Valley and upper Basilicata II, 1863–1865.

'Enrico Dal Lago recounts in compelling detail and with analytic precision the simultaneous civil wars that unfolded in the United States and Italy in 1861–65. This is comparative history at its best, as parallel histories intersect, shedding new light on the freedom struggles of American slaves and Italian peasants, as well as on the nation-building projects of elites in both countries. There is no historian writing today who approaches the past like Enrico Dal Lago.' Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University, Washington, DC