The Age of Lincoln and Cavour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 1-18

3. Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism and Italian Democratic Nationalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern “Liberators” and Southern Laborers in the United States and Italy, 1830–1860

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 21-36

   3. Purging Nations with Blood: John Brown, Pisacane, Social Justice, and Guerrilla Warfare

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 37-57

4. Lincoln, Cavour, and Progressive Nationalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Economic Progress, Markets, and Railroads in Lincoln’s and Cavour’s Early Careers

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 61-91

   3. Progressive Nationalism, Politics, and National Unifications: Lincoln and Cavour after 1850

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 93-120

5. Secession, Civil War, and Nation-Building in the United States and Italy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. The Specter of Confederate Secession in Early Post-Unification Italy

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 123-140

   3. Inner Civil Wars in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861–1865

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 141-164

6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

      • Enrico Dal Lago

      Pages 165-170

7. Back Matter

   Pages 171-235

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In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.  

• civil war
• Lincoln, Abraham
• nation
• USA

Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861 (2005), American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. 'Peculiar Institution' in International Perspective (2012), and William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform (2013).

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