Risorgimento in Exile Italian ?migr?s and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era

The experience of exiles was fundamental for shaping Italian national identity. Risorgimento in Exile investigates the contribution to Italian nationalism made by the numerous patriots who were forced to live in exile following failed revolutions in the Italian states. Examining the writings of such exiles, Maurizio Isabella challenges existing historiography regarding the lack of genuine liberal culture in the Risorgimento. He argues that these émigrés' involvement in debates with British, continental, and American intellectuals points to the emergence of Liberalism and Romanticism as international ideologies shared by a community of patriots that stretched from Europe to Latin America. Risorgimento in Exile represents the first effort to place Italian patriotism in a broad international framework, revealing the importance and originality of the Italian contribution to European Anglophilia and Philhellenism, and to transatlantic debates on federalism. In doing so, it demonstrates that the Risorgimento first developed as a variation upon such global trends.

1 - A Liberal International: simultaneous revolutions and the birth of a trans-national civil society
2 - The Spanish Revolution, Italian volunteers and European
3 - In Search of New Models of Heroism: Revolutionary Leadership and Democratic Federalism in Spanish America
4 - Greece and the regeneration of the Mediterranean
5 - Cosmopolitan patriots: freedom and civilization as global processes
6 - English institutions and Italian Freedom
7 - Assessing English Commercial society
8 - Narrating the Risorgimento to the English public

Maurizio Isabella is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has been a Research fellow at Birkbeck College, London, and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University. This is his first book.