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Denis Mack Smith obituary | Books | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • In 1954, Denis Mack Smith, who has died aged 97, produced his first book – and his masterpiece – Cavour and Garibaldi 1860: A Study in Political Conflict. Written with verve and style, it unpicks a crucial year in Italian history, undercutting a series of accepted truths concerning Italy’s unification and, in Jonathan Steinberg’s words, telling Italians “what they did not want to hear”.
  • Denis was a rarity, a true populariser of history, who wrote in a clear, readable and engaging style. His writing was full of quotable lines. He wrote of Cavour that he had “managed to persuade people to back a revolution on the excuse that this was the way to prevent a revolution”.
  • In 1949, Denis met one of Garibaldi’s daughters in Rome, and she invited him to visit the family home on the island in Caprera. He later said that it was one of the great regrets of his life that he had not been able to do so.
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  • His own other publications included a biography of Mussolini (1982), and further, separate studies of Garibaldi and Cavour were joined in 1994 by a biography of Giuseppe Mazzini, the other leading figure of the Risorgimento. Denis also edited The Making of Italy, 1796-1866 (1988), and co-authored A History of Sicily (1986) with Moses Finley and Christopher Duggan.
  • Denis’s success set in train a whole host of British scholars working on modern and contemporary Italy. The Association for the Study of Modern Italy, which organises an annual conference and publishes the journal Modern Italy, was set up in 1982, and Denis followed Christopher Seton-Watson as its chair. He was made a fellow of the British Academy (1976), a Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana (1984) and a CBE (1990).
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The Importance of Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi to Italian Unification - International ... - 0 views

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  • By doing this he contributed towards unifying Italy because he decreased the number of independent states
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Italian Unification - Garibaldi and Cavour (Outline) | Kingdom Of Italy | Italy - 0 views

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Italian Unification

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  • Cavour was more of a political thinker, and acted accordinglyii.
Javier E

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  • the Civil War was just one of several wars for national unification — including fighting in Italy and Germany — on both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-19th century.
  • While countries like Britain and France were concentrating on expansion through colonization, the United States, Germany and others were focused inward, developing — intentionally or not — the centralizing powers that have defined the modern state ever since. What seems like a particularly American event was really part of a much larger, and much more significant, historical trend.
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi and his fellow campaigners for Italy’s unification — which had just been proclaimed in March — would have understood this, as would nationalists (sometimes called “unitarios”) elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Argentina, Colombia and Canada, whose confederation debate got going at about the same time.
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  • As Lincoln saw it, “older” powers like Britain, France and Russia could go on to see imperial archipelagos flourish, but “younger” states should opt for geographic and political consolidation and centralization at home.
  • Beginning in 1862, Bismarck unified Germany, but he explicitly rejected the idea of a “Großdeutschland,” or “Greater Germany,” incorporating Austria, in favor of a “kleindeutsche Lösung,” or “Little German Solution,” that preferred centralization over maximum territorial expansion.
  • Unifying states needed more than just will; they needed propitious events and conditions.
  • the Civil War — as significant as it is for American history — is even more important when viewed through a comparative, transatlantic lens. The fight for internal unification rather than expansion meant that never again would the United States seek to conquer and annex its neighbors. It would, along with Bismarck’s Germany, be a new kind of state: centralized, rationalized and mobilized to dominate the coming century.
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