A political history of national citizenship and identity in Italy, 1861-1950 - Donati, Sabina 1972- (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-394) and index
This book examines the historical origins and complex evolution of Italian national citizenship and identity from the political unification of monarchical Italy in 1861 to the first developments of republican Italy in 1950. Using the two metaphors of 'citizenship as a mirror' and 'citizenship as a pencil' for the historical analysis of nationhood, the book details the policies, debates and formal notions of Italian national citizenship to grasp and discuss the multi-faceted, evolving, and often contested visions of italianità
National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the origins of Italian monarchical subjecthood (1859-1866) -- "Becoming visible" : Italian women and their male co-citizens in the liberal state -- Foreign immigration, citizenship and Italianità in the peninsula : Italiani non regnicoli, non-Italian immigrants and notions of alienhood -- "O migranti o briganti" : Italian emigration and nationality policies in the peninsula -- Liberal Italy's expansionism and citizenship issues (1880s-1922) : colonial subjects, citizens of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, and Dodecannesini -- Citizenship of women and their counterpart throughout the Ventennium -- Fascist Italy's colonized, annexed and occupied territories : citizenship policies and native populations in Mussolini's Roman Empire -- The armistice of 8 September, Brindisi and Salò : reflections on citizenship issues (1943-1945) -- The birth and the first developments of Italy's democratic republican citizenship (1946-1950) -- Conclusion : national citizenship and italianità in historical perspective