This important new book considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and

Traces the changing identity and ownership of the important city of Trieste in a turbulent period. The port of Trieste, standing at a crucial strategic point at

Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book

The renewed attention to the origin and shape of nationalist discourses has promoted many excellent studies devoted to examining the rich storehouse of cultural

This book is composed of a selection of papers presented at a conference in Cambridge in December 2005. Cultural history is a relatively new sub-discipline. Ove