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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1. Introduction: Decolonial Imagination and Social Justice in the Radical Risorgimento.- Chapter 2. Risorgimento Historiography and Plural Notions of Freedom.- Chapter 3. The Geographers’ Connection, and the ‘Right of Peoples’.- Chapter 4. The Lombard Connection.- Chapter 5. The Tuscan Connection.- Chapter 6. The Southern Connection.- Chapter 7. Heretic Connections, and the Other Garibaldians.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Decolonising Europe, or the Subversive Roots of European Federalism.