Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento

  • Book
  • © 2015

Overview

Editors:
  1. Nick Carter

    1. Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento

    • Nick Carter
    Pages 1-32

  3. A Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Young Ireland and the Risorgimento

    • Michael Huggins
    Pages 33-54

  4. ‘The ink of the wise’: Mazzini, British Radicalism and Print Culture, 1848–1855

    • Joan Allen
    Pages 55-79

  5. Felice Orsini and the Construction of the Pro-Italian Narrative in Britain

    • Elena Bacchin
    Pages 80-103

  6. ‘An Italy Independent and One’: Giovanni (John) Ruffini, Britain and the Italian Risorgimento

    • Raffaella Antinucci
    Pages 104-126

  7. An Italian Inferno in Ireland: Alessandro Gavazzi and Religious Debate in the Nineteenth Century

    • Anne O’Connor
    Pages 127-150

  8. Conforming to the British Model? ‘Official’ British Perspectives on the New Italy

    • O. J. Wright
    Pages 151-178

  9. Italian Women in the Making: Re-reading the Englishwoman’s Review (c.1871–1889)

    • Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe
    Pages 179-203

  10. Italy and the ‘Irish Risorgimento’: Italian Perspectives on the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921

    • Chiara Chini
    Pages 204-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-233
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia

    Nick Carter

About the editor

Nick Carter is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia. His recent publications include Modern Italy in Historical Perspective (2010). He is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Executive Member of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy and Reviews Editor for Modern Italy.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation