Il Risorgimento oltremanica. Nazionalismo cosmopolita nei meeting britannici di metà Ottocento

Autor(en)

Elena Bacchin

Abstrakt

The article deals with the pro-Italian public meetings and lectures held in Great Britain from 1847 to 1864. Using contemporary British newspaper articles, private correspondence and archives, and diaries it examines the form, location, and frequency of the various philo-Italian activities; it explores the social profile of some leading speakers, the composition of the audience and its reactions, and the symbols displayed during the meetings. Pro-Italian activities, which were part of a more general platform supporting the struggle of foreign oppressed nationalities, helped creating and spreading the Italian national-patriotic discourse in Britain. The analysis of the platform, shedding lights on the issue of the mass participation and involvement in nationalistic movements, reveals the existence, in mid-Victorian Britain, of a widespread pro-Italian opinion actively endorsing the cause of Italian unification.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Journal

Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900

Band

16

Seiten

173-202

ISSN

1127-3070

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1409/34491

Publikationsdatum

2011

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601005 Europäische Geschichte

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/il-risorgimento-oltremanica-nazionalismo-cosmopolita-nei-meeting-britannici-di-meta-ottocento(b5708ac6-b40d-40a1-9d54-3274cba1fcea).html