At the roots of Italian identity / Edoardo Marcello Barsotti.

The 'Primacy of the Nation.' Vincenzo Cuoco and the Quest for Italian Identity -- A Plural Italy? Archaeology, Linguistics, and Racial Types in the Restoration Age -- The 'Lombard Question': Catholic Liberal Intelligentsia and the Racialization of the Romano-Germanic Encounter -- On the Complexities of the Ethnogenesis: Giandomenico Romagnosi and Carlo Cattaneo on National 'Stocks' and Racial 'Types' -- Reconsidering Primacy and National Genealogies: 'Nation' and 'Race' in the Debate among Moderates, 1843-1846 -- The 'Science of Nations.'

"This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian independence movement of the nineteenth century and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity"-- Provided by publisher.

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