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By Sabina Donati

This e-book examines the interesting origins and the complicated evolution of Italian nationwide citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until eventually simply after international battle II. It does so through exploring the civic background of Italians within the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and out of the country local populations. utilizing little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the regulations, debates, and formal notions of Italian nationwide citizenship so as to greedy the multi-faceted, evolving, and infrequently contested vision(s) of italianità. In her learn, those disparate visions are introduced into dialog with modern scholarship bearing on alienhood, racial pondering, migration, expansionism, and gender.
As the 1st English-language ebook at the sleek background of Italian citizenship, this paintings highlights often-overlooked precedents, continuities, and discontinuities inside of and among liberal and fascist Italies. It invitations the reader to check the Italian studies with different ecu ones, akin to French, British, and German citizenship traditions.

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