Review Article * Rethinking Italy's Nation-Building 150 Years Afterwards: The New Risorgimento Historiography

Isabella, Maurizio

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“…8. For summaries of the most recent historiographic debates on the Risorgimento, see Banti (2004); Banti and Ginsborg (2007); Davis (2000); Isabella (2012); and Riall (1994;. For a review of the historiography on the Church in Italy, see Kertzer (2000;; and Pollard (2008).…”

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The Leap of Faith

Steinmo¹

2018

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This book examines the evolution of the relationship between taxpayers and their states in Sweden, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Romania, and asks why tax compliance is so much higher in some countries than others. The book shows that successful states have built strong administrative capacities, tax citizens fairly and equitably, and deliver public services that are tangible to taxpayers. The main substantive chapters explore the history of a particular country demonstrating how and why these capacities were developed (or not). The book is part of a larger project entitled “Willing to Pay?” which brings together historical institutional analysis with experimental methods. A series of articles as well as a subsequent book elaborate the specific findings from the experiments undertaken in each country. These experiments, however, cannot tell us why compliance behavior differs so much across societies. The Leap of Faith offers just such an explanation by showing the history of the relationship between taxpayers and their states over time in several countries, allowing an answer to the question: Why are some countries more successful at implementation than others? The book concludes with a policy-oriented chapter written specifically with tax and revenue administrators in the developing world in mind. Drawing on lessons from the historical chapters it is argued that effective administration and equitable distribution of both taxes and public spending are keys to generating taxpayer consent.

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The Leap of Faith

Steinmo¹

2018

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“…Yet, studies of nationalism emphasise ways in which internationalism and nationalism are entangled and interconnected (i.e. Parry ; Sluga ) and a transnational approach to the study of the Italian nationalist movement has stressed the importance of the circulation of ideas, people and practices in shaping the Risorgimento culture (Isabella ). In particular, scholars focus on the role of exiles within networks of liberal intellectuals, on the mobilising force of the Garibaldi and Mazzini myths beyond national borders and on the importance of speeches based on shared emotions and values (Bacchin ; Isabella ; Pécout ; Bayly & Biagini ; Riall ).…”

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Oppressed nationalities: Italian responses to the Polish Uprising of January 1863

Bacchin

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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This article analyses the activities organised in Italy to support the Polish Uprising of 1863 and the speeches and narratives used to present this foreign question to the Italian public. This international event brought to the forefront the same issues that had been raised by Italian nationalism, and also when discussing foreign national movements, Italy reflected both on her own identity and past history. In particular, the democratic ideals of the Risorgimento found their fulfilment in supporting the Polish rebels. The article, using archival sources, tries to build a transnational approach to Italian nationalism with a particular focus on how both Italian patriots and public opinion perceived and acted towards other ‘oppressed nationalities’ while also struggling to complete its own unification. Supporting a foreign cause was not only an expression of solidarity, but it also strengthened national sentiment and provoked a reflection on Italian national pride and identity.

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“…It is not contradictory to say that strong nationalism and a contested national identity coexist in Italy (Gori 2015;Isabella 2012). This divide can be traced back to the Risorgimento, a movement in the second half of the 19 th century that led to the country's unification.…”

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“…On the one hand, this "question" serves as an all-purpose excuse for northern Italy's regionalism that leads to growing separatism; on the other, it augments southern Italy's regionalism as a response to the state's failure in solving these issues and the northern supremacists' discrimination against them. While the exact denotation and essence of the "question" are open to debate, most discussions have pointed out the economic underdevelopment, pervasive organised crime, deep-seated corruption and other socio-political dilemmas faced by the southern regions (e.g., Chambers, 2015;Isabella, 2012). In popular culture and some political debates, instead of being seriously addressed, these issues are often translated into a myriad of negative stereotypes, rendering systematic racialisation, marginalisation and otherisation of the south (Chambers 2015;DiMaria 2018).…”

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“…In the Salento Region Movement, a political movement and also a party that demands establishing a separate region, the demarcation of Salento is overstretched to include all the territories of the provinces of Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto. 10 Against the backdrop of never-ceasing regionalism in Italy (Cavazza 2012;Gori 2015;Isabella 2012), Salentine identity is an important reality in southern Apulia, shaping public discourses in many spheres, including (but not limited to) politics, culture and tourism (Greco 2015;Pizza 2004).…”

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Coming to grips with diverse voices in participatory heritage initiatives

Zheng¹

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Community participation is increasingly advocated as a promising approach to cultural heritage management. One of the main justifications for doing so is to challenge the authorized heritage discourse and further multivocality. However, regarding the approach of “community participation”, many issues are yet to be addressed. This project tackles one of the main issues faced by participatory heritage initiatives. That is, with the presence of diverse voices about heritage in a so-called community, how does the community deal with the multivocal reality? This project explores this question by drawing on various examples from three Italian communities - Mesagne and Latiano from the southern Italian region of Apulia, and the neighbourhood of Testaccio in the historic centre of Rome.

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Review Article * Rethinking Italy's Nation-Building 150 Years Afterwards: The New Risorgimento Historiography

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