During the nineteenth century, legionaries were among the principal protagonists of the state and nation building processes in the Atlantic world. Mercenaries, fighters and volunteers, as shown by the Rio de la Plata case, were the center of a complex system of accords and alliances, that transversally crossed Buenos Aires and Montevideo to the Italian states. The phenomenon of the republican voluntarism linked the dynamics of nationalization among the two banks of the Atlantic. But also, it connected the military practices, ideological solidarity and political perspectives of the Risorgimento wars to the Rio de la Plata civil conflicts, in addition to promoting cases of entanglement among the groups and political elite of different origin
‘The Plough and the Sword’. Mazzinian Settlers Beyond the Rio de la Plata Borderlands, 1855-60 / Bonvini, A. - (2017). (Intervento presentato al convegno Empires after the global ‘turn’: planned migrations, colonial agents and informal colonialism, c.1800-c.1950 tenutosi a European University Institute nel 1-2. 06. 2017).
‘The Plough and the Sword’. Mazzinian Settlers Beyond the Rio de la Plata Borderlands, 1855-60
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During the nineteenth century, legionaries were among the principal protagonists of the state and nation building processes in the Atlantic world. Mercenaries, fighters and volunteers, as shown by the Rio de la Plata case, were the center of a complex system of accords and alliances, that transversally crossed Buenos Aires and Montevideo to the Italian states. The phenomenon of the republican voluntarism linked the dynamics of nationalization among the two banks of the Atlantic. But also, it connected the military practices, ideological solidarity and political perspectives of the Risorgimento wars to the Rio de la Plata civil conflicts, in addition to promoting cases of entanglement among the groups and political elite of different originFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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