This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea.
N. Carter
Risorgimento Italian unification Italian independence nineteenth century transnational history Britain British Ireland Irish Romanticism nationalism anti-Catholicism feminism exile radicalism