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dc.contributor.authorMAZZOLI, Gilberto
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-09T09:12:06Z
dc.date.available2021-09-09T09:12:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationModern Italy, 2021, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 199-215en
dc.identifier.issn1353-2944
dc.identifier.issn1469-9877
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/72402
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 08 April 2021en
dc.description.abstractDuring the Age of Mass Migration more than four million Italians reached the United States. The experience of Italians in US cities has been widely explored: however, the study of how migrants adjusted in relation to nature and food production is a relatively recent concern. Due to a mixture of racism and fear of political radicalism, Italians were deemed to be undesirable immigrants in East Coast cities and American authorities had long perceived Italian immigrants as unclean, unhealthy and carriers of diseases. As a flipside to this narrative, Italians were also believed to possess a ‘natural’ talent for agriculture, which encouraged Italian diplomats and politicians to propose the establishment of agricultural colonies in the southern United States. In rural areas Italians could profit from their agricultural skills and finally turn into ‘desirable immigrants’. The aim of this paper is to explore this ‘emigrant colonialism’ through the lens of environmental history, comparing the Italian and US diplomatic and public discourses on the potential and limits of Italians’ agricultural skills.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofModern Italyen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleItalianness in the United States between migrants’ informal gardening practices and agricultural diplomacy (1880–1912)en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/mit.2021.16
dc.identifier.volume26en
dc.identifier.startpage199en
dc.identifier.endpage215en
dc.identifier.issue2en
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