Emigrant Nation : The Making of Italy Abroad /
Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young Italian state struggled to adapt to the exodus, it pioneered the establishment of a "global nation"-an Italy abroad cemented by ti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2008]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Program of Emigrant Colonialism
- 1 From Africa to the Americas
- 2 The Great Ethnographic Empire
- 3 Migration and Money
- 4 The Language of Dante
- 5 For Religion and for the Fatherland
- 6 Emigration and the New Nationalism
- 7 Earthquake, Pestilence, and World War
- Conclusion: Toward a Global Nation
- Appendix: Maps and Figures
- Notes
- Index