The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 033373971X ISBN 13: 9780333739716

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Riassunto

The essays collected in this volume explore the multiple connections and parallels between the histories of the American south and the Italian south. Leading historians of the two regions consider the comparability of issues as diverse as the stereotypes relating to the two souths, the ideology of the landed elites, the treatment of labourers on large landed estates, the importance of gender in the understanding of social relations, and the connections between progressive political forces and between migratory movements across the two sides of the Atlantic.

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L'autore:

PIERO BEVILACQUA Lecturer in Risorgimento History, University of Rome and Editor of the journal Meridiana. GIOVANNA FIUME Lecturer in Modern History, University of Palermo.RICHARD FOLLETT Lecturer in American History, University of SussexDONNA R. GABACCIA Charles H. Stone Professor of American History, University of North Carolina at CharlotteSTEVEN HAHN Professor of History at Northwestern UniversityJ. WILLIAM HARRIS Professor and Chair in the History Department, University of New HampshirePETER KOLCHIN Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, University of DelawareBRUCE LEVINE Professor of History at the University of California, Santa CruzMARTA PETRUSEWICZ Professor of Modern European History, City University of New YorkLUCY RIALL Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Birkbeck College, University of London

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Notes on the Contributors
PART I: THE TWO SOUTHS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Two Case-Studies in Comparative History: The American South and Italian Mezzogiorno; E.D.Lago & R.Halpern
The American South in Comparative Perspective; P.Kolchin
Peter Kolchin's American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Some Questions about Comparative History; P.Bevilacqua
PART II: LANDED ELITES AND RURAL WORKERS
On the Edge of Modernity: Louisiana's Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century Sugar Country; R.Follett
Land-Based Modernization and the Culture of Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Mezzogiorno; M.Petrusewicz
The Politics of Black Rural Labourers in the Postbellum American South; S.Hahn
'Ill-Contrived, Badly Executed [and] of No Avail'?; Reform and its Impact in the Sicilian Latifondo (C.1770-1910); L.Riall
PART III: GENDER AS A CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL COMPARISON
Gender in the Recent Historiography of the US South and some Speculations on the Prospects for Comparative History; J.W.Harris
Making Women 'Visible' in the History of the Mezzogiorno; G.Fiume
PART IV: CONNECTIONS
Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern 'Liberators' and Southern Labourers in the Untied States and in Italy; E.D.Lago
Two Great Migrations: America and Italian Southerners in Comparative Perspective; D.Gabaccia
Modernity, Backwardness and Capitalism in the two Souths; B.Levine

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 033373971X
• ISBN 13: 9780333739716
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Dal Lago Enrico, Halpern Rick