America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865

by Axel Körner and Axel Krner

America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel K?rner shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but he focuses on the important distinction that while European interest in developments across the Atlantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164851
• ISBN13: 9780691164854
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"