Italy's Many Diasporas (Global Diasporas) - Softcover

Gabaccia, Donna R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295979186 ISBN 13: 9780295979182

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Italians are a migratory people. Since 1800 over 27 million Italians have left home, but over half have returned to Italy. As cosmopolitans, exiles, and "workers of the world," they transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled abroad.

Drawing on a wide range of studies of Italian migrants to a dozen different countries, Gabaccia puts the modern Italian diaspora in historical context, charting the emergence of this once regionally fragmented diaspora as a nationally conscious cultural group.

Italy's Many Diasporas provides an ambitious and theoretically innovative overview, examining the social, cultural, and economic integration of Italian migrants. It explores their complex yet distinctive identity and their relationship with their homeland.

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'One of the most perceptive critical syntheses in recent English-language historiography ... a fascinating reading for specialists and laypersons alike.' - International Review of Social History

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0295979186
• ISBN 13: 9780295979182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264