The Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Perspectives
Title | The Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Perspectives |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Secondary Authors | Janz, Oliver, and Lucy Riall |
Journal | Modern Italy |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 1 (Special Issue) |
Pagination | 1-92 |
Date Published | 01/2014 |
Abstract | This special issue of the journal Modern Italy on the theme "The Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Perspectives", edited by Oliver Janz and Lucy Riall explores the historiography on the Risorgimento from the perspective of transnational history. The term ‘transnational history’ has made rapid ground in recent scholarly debate. In some ways the latest manifestation of an approach that has been variously described as international, comparative, world or global history, transnational history seeks to overcome a historiography focused on the nation and to displace the focus on the nation-state by studying non-governmental institutions, civil associations, informal groups and/or individual actors. Its primary claim to innovation lies in an emphasis on movement, interaction and interpenetration between and across different groups, societies and political units. Thus, the main concern of transnational history is with linkages and networks, perhaps especially in the so-called ‘Global South’; with respect to the latter, an implicit aim of the approach is to challenge the ‘Eurocentrism’ characteristic of historical writing at least since the Enlightenment. The special issue includes the following chapters:
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URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmit20/19/1 |