Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity

217 Pages·2005·2.076 MB·English

by  Paola Gemme

Domesticating Foreign Struggles
The
Italian
Risorgimento
and
Antebellum
American
Identity
The
University
of
Georgia
Press
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Domesticating
Foreign
Struggles
Paola Gemme
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Athens, Georgia 30602
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gemme, Paola, 1966–
Domesticating foreign struggles : the Italian Risorgimento
and antebellum American identity /Paola Gemme.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8203-2707-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Italy—Foreign public opinion, American—History—19th
century. 2. Italy—History—1849–1870. 3. Public
opinion—United States—History—19th century. I. Title.
E183.8.I8G4552005
945'.083—dc22
2004021100
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Chapter 2 of this book was previously published, in a
different form, as “Imperial Designs of Political Philanthropy:
A Study of Antebellum Accounts of Italian Liberalism,” in
American Studies International39, no. 1 (2001):19–51, and
appears courtesy of George Washington University. Chapter 4
was previously published, in a different form, as
“Domesticating Foreign Struggles: American Narratives of
Italian Revolutions and the Debate on Slavery in the
Antebellum Era,” in Prospects 27 (2002): 77–101, and appears
courtesy of Cambridge University Press.
ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4399-0
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contents
ListofFigures ix
Introduction:DomesticatingForeignStruggles 1
1. OfAmericanMentorsandForeignPupils:TheCulturalWork
ofRepublicanPedagogy 15
2. OfRevolutionsandCommerce:TheImperialVistasofPolitical
Philanthropy 57
3. AnAmericanJeremiahinRome:MargaretFuller’sTribune
Dispatches 89
4. RepublicanDebatesI:TheColoroftheRepublic 107
5. RepublicanDebatesII:TheReligionoftheRepublic 131
Epilogue:RevolutionandImmigration 156
Notes 163
Bibliography 179
Index 199
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figures
1. MapoftheunificationofItaly 9
2. AtMidnight (ca.1853) 28
3. ItaliansrebellingagainsttheAustrians(ca.1850) 29
4. BondfortheAlleanzaRepubblicanaUniversale(ca.1865) 33
5. HiramPowers,America (1848–50) 34
6. ThomasNast,StreetSceneinNaplestheDayaftertheArrival
ofGaribaldi (1860) 41
7. MartinJohnsonHeade,RomanNewsboys (1848) 48
8. MapoftheharborofNaples(1847) 63
9. PortraitofGiuseppeMazzini(1852) 74
10. MapofthesecondcampaignofCharlesAlbert(1852) 80
11. GeneralGiuseppeGaribaldi (1860) 125
12. TheSaintandtheHero:GaribaldiDrivingSt.Januariusand
theWinkingPictureoutofNaples (1860) 147
13. Dignumetjustumest (ca.1853) 148
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