Mazzini - Hardcover

Mack Smith, Denis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300058845 ISBN 13: 9780300058840

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is a biography of Giuseppe Mazzini, a proponent of nationalism and political reform who was instrumental in forging an independent and unified Italy. The author reassesses Mazzini's ideas and offers insights into his life and the political and intellectual world in which he lived. The book is based on scholarship and archival research and reconstructs Mazzini's long years in exile, his friendships with the greatest figures of the age (Marx, Carylye and Bakunin, amongst others) and the political and intellectual world of the mid-19th century. It places the politics of Italian Unification into a comparative and new setting and offers insights into the political culture of the time.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book by one of the most distinguished historians of Italy is the first modern biography in English of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the leading figures in the political and intellectual world of mid-nineteenth-century Europe. Denis Mack Smith reexamines Mazzini's ideological impact and portrays him as a vigorous proponent of patriotism, a pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and a fascinating personality whose ideas brought him into contact with Marx, Carlyle, Mill, and Bakunin.

About the Author:

Denis Mack Smith is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Commendatore of the Italian Order of Merit. Fellow of Wolfson College, and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0300058845
• ISBN 13: 9780300058840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312