@article{1447045,
      recid = {1447045},
      author = {Ferretti, Federico.},
      title = {Geographies of Federalism during the Italian Risorgimento,  1796-1900 /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {"Ferretti pushes the debate about the radical-democratic  strands in Italian Unification (the Risorgimento) beyond  the usual oppositions -republicanism v. socialism,  centralism v. federalism - to consider how much the  contentions of the time extended to consideration of  authoritarianism, militarism, and colonialism rather than  just administrative arrangements per se. In taking a  fundamentally geographical approach to the debate, Ferretti  not only provides a new perspective on the radical impulses  in the Risorgimento but also contributes to the  contemporary rethinking of nation-statehood, territorial  sovereignty, and the possibilities of transnational  federalism. Perhaps most importantly, this book shows that  the form which Italian unification took was never a  foregone conclusion. There is a broader lesson here." John  Agnew, Professor of Geography, University of California Los  Angeles, USA Combining intellectual history, geography and  political science, this book addresses the relations  between geography and the federalist tendencies of key  individuals during the nineteenth-century Italian  Risorgimento. The book investigates the development of  transnational federalist attitudes amongst a political  network of intellectuals, and hones in on several  understudied figures who played important roles in the  Italian radical movements for national and social  liberation. Notably, this includes political geographers  who mobilised geographical metaphors to foster change and  reorganise territories. The author demonstrates how  federalism, anarchism and republicanism were all connected  and led not only to autonomy in Italy, but more locally  within its regions and municipalities, and more broadly  across Europe over the Long Risorgimento period.  Contributing to current debates on federalism and  anti-colonialism, this book will appeal to historical  geographers, political scientists and those researching the  history of federalism, republicanism and anarchism in  Europe. Federico Ferretti is Full Professor of Geography at  the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna in Italy.  His research revolves around the history of geography and  includes geo-history and the circulation of geographical  knowledge through anarchist approaches. He has written  several books and published articles in a number of leading  journals, including the Journal of Historical Geography and  Political Geography.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1447045},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96117-6},
}