Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s

Stéphane Mourlane is Associate Professor of Modern History at Aix-Marseille Université and a researcher at TELEMMe research centre.Céline Regnard is Associate Professor of Modern History at Aix-Marseille Université, researcher at TELEMMe research centre and a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France.Manuela Martini is Professor of Modern History at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, a researcher at the LARhRA research centre and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Catherine Brice is Professor of Modern History in the Center for Research in Comparative European History (CRHEC) at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, and a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

• 1. Introduction; Catherine Brice, Manuela Martini, Stéphane Mourlane & Céline Regnard.- Part I. Italians through their Travels.- 2. The Risorgimento Italians' Journeys and Exile Narratives: Flight, Expedition or Peregrination; Delphine Diaz.- 3. From Italy to the Levant: Mediterranean Itineraries of the Venetian Émigres in 1849; Giacomo Girardi.- 4. "He is all American Now": Italian Americans in the Italian Campaign of World War II; Manoela Patti.- 5. Italiannes, Flexible Citizenship and Belonging: Unravelling Paths of Emigrant Descendants' 'Return' to North Eastern Italy; Melissa Blanchard.- Part II. Italian Institutions.- 6. Italianness in Colonial Tunisia through the Dante Alighieri Society, 1893-1920; Fabriele Montalbano.- 7. The Promotion of Italiannes in Argentina during the Interwar Period; Laura Fotia.- 8. The Ventottisti, or the Generation of 1928: Italian Consuls, the Spread of Fascism and the Question of Italian Imperialism; Joãa Fábio Bertonha.- 9. The Italianization of the Italian American and Fascism's Entrance into American Ethnic Politics, 1930-35; Jessica H. Lee.- 10. Emigration for Adoption: The National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Adoption of Italian Children in the United States; Silvia Cassamagnaghi.- Part III. Italian Words.- 11. Italian Language in Exile in France during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro.- 12. Italianità under Influence: Filippo Manetta - A Mazzinian Exile in America, a Confederate Agent in Italy; Bénédicte Deschamps.- 13. The Writing and Pidgin of Miners Native to Emilia Working in Pennsylvania and Illinois, 1898-1914; Marco Fincardi.- 14. From the Local Identity of Basilicata nel Mondo to the National Community of Italiani pel Mondo: Italian Press and Emigration, 1924-30; Gaetano Morese.- Part IV. Manifestations of Italianness.- 15. Crisscross Italianities: Circulations, Identifications and Sociability in Nineteenth-century Istanbul; Marie Bossaert.- 16.A Paper Trail: Italian Migrants in Marseille and Buenos Aires, 1860-1914; Thibault Bechini.- 17. "Bread Denied by the Nation": The Italians Abroad Exhibitions between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Anna Pellegrino.- 18. When the Italians Came on the Scene: Immigration and Negotiation of Identities in the Popular Theatre of São Paulo in the Early Twentieth Century; Virginia de Almeida Bessa.