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dc.contributor.authorGÖHDE, Ferdinand Nicolas
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-16T14:07:24Z
dc.date.available2015-01-16T14:07:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationModern Italy, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 21-39en
dc.identifier.issn1353-2944
dc.identifier.issn1469-9877
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/34200
dc.descriptionPublished online : 21 February 2014
dc.description.abstractThe article discusses new studies of foreign soldiers in the Italian armed groups of the (Anti-)Risorgimento against the background of recent scholarship on ‘transnational soldiers’, which acknowledges the complexities of foreigners' initial motives for enlistment and of the transnational processes inside the single armies. The article suggests that from the mundane structures of military life to the perceptions of the rank-and-file, many aspects of the soldiering experience in the multinational armed groups on all sides of the Risorgimento actually advanced rather than obviated national boundaries. This paper further demonstrates that the military cultures of the nationalists and the anti-unity forces were much more porous and mutually constitutive than is often recognised. The histories of the ‘transnational soldiers’ in the armed groups of the Risorgimento and Anti-Risorgimento are crucial for a possibly new, comparative history of the armed groups of the (Anti-)Risorigmento. This paper explores approaches of the culturally revived ‘new military history’ and suggests that it provides much still unrealised potential for Risorgimento historiography.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofModern Italy
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleA new military history of the Italian Risorgimento and anti-Risorgimento : the case of "transnational soldiers"en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13532944.2013.871418
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.identifier.startpage21
dc.identifier.endpage39
dc.identifier.issue1


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