Cosmopolitan Italy in the age of nations : transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / edited by Edoardo Tortarolo.
"Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision in the last quarter of a century. From an almost exclusive focus on the process of nation-building, the attention of historians has shifted. The most innovative research is now devoted to assessing to what extent the cosmopolit...
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1 Italy and the Mediterranean
- Reflections from the East: Experiences in the Levant of two eighteenth-century travellers (1760-1792) / Renato Pasta
- Crossing sights: Women and nation between Italy and Egypt / Catia Papa
- Emerging Egypt looks to Italy: Relations and Interactions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Arabic Sources / Cristina Baldazzi
- Section 2 Visions of Italy
- Charles Lever's Italy in the Risorgimento: An Anglo-Irish perspective / Roberta Gefter Wondrich
- Through the mists of Albion: the couple Ball-Parolini / Irene Gaddo-Daniela Piemontino
- Beyond aesthetic consumption: Italy in Henry James's early travel literature / Leonardo Buonomo
- Section 3 Italy in the Far East
- Acquiring advanced Italian technologies: The Japanese Silk and Silkworm Committee in Italy in
- Alessandro Di Meo, Italian explorations in Southeast Asia / Claudio Zanier
- Italian artistic culture in the Far East: Galileo Chini at the Siamese court in the early twentieth century / Massimo De Grassi
- Section 4 Transatlantic Italy
- Exporting Italy across the Atlantic: The 'Romanization' of the North American dioceses and assistance to Italian emigrants / Matteo Sanfilippo
- Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs: The case of sarsaparilla and China root in early modern Italian medicine / Irene Fattacciu
- Section 5 A Florentine View
- The cradle of the Renaissance? Foreign travellers in Florence from the past to present-day times (1755-2020) / Igor Melani.