Bøger af Enrico Dal Lago

Focusing on William Lloyd Garrison's and Giuseppe Mazzini's activities and transnational links within their own milieus and in the wider international arena, Dal Lago shows why two nineteenth-century progressives and revolutionaries considered liberation from enslavement and liberation from national oppression as two sides of the same coin.

In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline's major themes - commodification, community, and comparison - and indicating paths for future inquiry.

Charts the parallel developments of plantations and latifondi in relation to changes in the world economy. The book examines the spread of "paternalistic" models of family relations and of slave and free-labour management that accompanied the rise of American slaveholders and southern Italian landed proprietors in the early-to-mid-1800s.

In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.

A new international perspective on American slavery, placing it as part of a wider Atlantic and Euro-American world.