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Civilization and Democracy : the Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings.

The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cattaneo, Carlo
Otros Autores: Sabetti, Filippo, Lacaita, Carlo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Colección:Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of Cattaneo's Collected Works; INTRODUCTION CARLO CATTANEO AND VARIETIES OF LIBERALISM; The Context; Cattaneo's Standing in Intellectual Life; The Paradigmatic Significance of Cattaneo; Salvemini's Discovery of Cattaneo; Promoting Cattaneo's Ideas; The Organization of Salvemini's Anthology; Gaetano Salvemini: The Making of a Public Intellectual; CATTANEO'S LIFE AND WORK; Early Studies; Il Politecnico; Political Ideas Prior to 1848; The Events of 1848; Between 1848 and 1860; Federalism; The Nation in Arms; Defeat; His Final Years.
  • SELECTED WRITINGS1 International Affairs; The Far East; The New World of the Pacific Ocean; The British Empire; The United States of America; French Centralization; The Austrian Army and Nationalist Issues; Swiss Neutrality; The Ottoman Question; International Solidarity; 2 Public Economy; Agriculture in Lombardy; The Basis of Fertility; Tendency of Capital toward Land Ownership; The Transportation Problem in Sicily; Uncultivated Land; Agriculture Comes from the Cities; Freedom of the Seas; Commerce; Modern Economic Life; Currents of World Trade; The Geographical Position of Milan.
  • Protected Markets and Commercial PowerEconomic Nationalism; Raw Materials; Nascent Industries; From Protectionism to Freedom; 'White' Coal; In Favor of an Active, Industrious Life; The Abolition of Capital; Intelligence and Will as Sources of Wealth; 3 Education and Militia; Division of Labor in Universities; Literary Education; Scientific Education; The Study of the Bible; Agricultural Training; Military Training; War and Civilization; Railroads and War; The Nation in Arms; The First Military Force Is the Will; 4 Local Autonomy; The Nation in Arms and Federalism; Local Patriotism.
  • Autonomy for SardiniaThe Error of Centralization; The Illusion of the Constituent Assembly; The Servile Status of the Communes; The Regions Must Arise; On the Independence of Small Communes; 5 The Social Question; The Advent of the Fourth Estate; The Fifth and Sixth Estates; The Comforts of the Poor; Universal Suffrage; The New Criminal Law; 6 Literature; History and Poetry; Opera in Music and Drama in Prose; The Prejudices of Romantics; The Feebleness of Italian Culture; Popular Writing; The French Language; Heine; Byron; Translations; The Common Enterprise of Humanity.
  • 7 Aspects of World HistoryThe Polygenic Origins of Humanity; The Origins of European Civilization; The Presumed Flood of Peoples; Languages and Dialects; Living Languages; Roman Unity; The Breakup of Roman Civilization; The Revolt of the Mercenaries; Feudal Society; Relics of Ancient Civilization; Classes and Nations in the Middle Ages; The Origins of Communes; Communal Wars; Firearms; National States; The Decadence of Mercantile Cities in the Middle Ages; The French and Spanish in Lombardy; 8 The Risorgimento; Lombard Reforms in the Eighteenth Century; Napoleon and Italy.