Italian Mobilities (Changing Mobilities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367869861 ISBN 13: 9780367869861

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed in from the era of the Grand Tour to the present, and Italians flowed out in massive numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Italians made up the largest voluntary emigration in recorded world history. As a bridge from Africa to Europe, Italy has more recently been a destination of choice for immigrants whose tragic stories of shipwreck and confinement are often in the news. This first-of-its-kind edited volume offers a critical accounting of those histories and practices, shedding new light on modern Italy as a flashpoint for mobilities as they relate to nationalism, imperialism, globalization, and consumer, leisure, and labor practices. The book’s eight essays reveal how a country often appreciated for what seems immutable - its classical and Renaissance patrimony - has in fact been shaped by movement and transit.

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About the Author

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University.

Stephanie Malia Hom is President’s Associates Presidential Professor of Italian at the University of Oklahoma.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367869861
• ISBN 13: 9780367869861
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Ben-Ghiat Ruth