Raponi Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento

Britain and the New Italy, 1861-1875
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-34298-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raponi, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Britain and Italy, Religion and Politics 1. Italy as the 'European India': British Orientalism, Cultural Imperialism, and Anti-Catholicism, c. 1850-1870 2. British Missionary Societies in Italy: Evangelising a Hostile Land, 1850-1862 3. Religion and Foreign Policy: From Unification to the 'Desperate Folly' of the Syllabus (1861-1864) 4. British Missionary Societies in Italy: Searching the Soul of the New Nation, 1862-1872 5. Protestant Foreign Policy and the Last Years of the Roman Question, 1865-1875 Conclusion: 'Great' because Protestant, 'Oriental' because Catholic

Über Autor(innen)

Danilo Raponi is Marie Curie and Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern History at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has also taught at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Cambridge, UK, and has held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His work has been published in English and Italian in numerous journals and edited collections.