America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 17631865

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America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel Korner shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but he focuses on

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"Winner of the 2018 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association"
"[America in Italy] makes an extremely valuable contribution to both intellectual and cultural history by its close examination of what this diverse group of Italian intellectuals, activists, and, to a lesser degree, the Italian public' understood about American life and political institutions (and the impact of this understanding on their nationalist struggle)." * Choice *
"Korner is perfectly positioned to undertake the ambitious task of writing a comprehensive overview of the history of the images of America in Italy between the American Revolution and the Civil War. The result of his effort is an elegantly written, extraordinarily erudite and highly innovative work, whose reading will reward both Italian and American scholars with the discovery of a multitude of cultural and political connections between eighteenth- and nineteenth century Italy and the United States."---Enrico Dal Lago, European History Quarterly

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Axel Korner is professor of modern history at University College London and director of the UCL Centre for Transnational History. His books include Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy and America Imagined.