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Military Federalism
This chapter takes a closer look at the system of military federalism that was created as part of German unification in 1871. By recognizing the...
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Geographies of Federalism during the Italian Risorgimento, 1796–1900
Combining intellectual history, geography and political science, this book addresses the relations between geography and the federalist tendencies of...
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Conclusion: Decolonising Europe, or the Subversive Roots of European Federalism
In this conclusion, I stress the vitality of federalist and radical Risorgimento’s legacies in a plurality of political and intellectual endeavours...
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‘Home Rule’ Imagined by Its Champions
What did home rulers want? This was one of the perennial bugbears from 1870 to 1914: ‘home rule’ referred to a wide variety of projects and was used...
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Conclusion
The German army that emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871 has commonly been seen as the “school of the nation.” After all—so this argument...
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The Lombard Connection
In this chapter, I discuss the works and networks of a group of scholars whose thought was paramount in informing federalism and early socialism in...
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Introduction
The German army that emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871 has commonly been seen as the “school of the nation.” After all—so this argument...
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Fighting Together but Apart
This chapter examines how the German Empire’s contingent-based army fared during the First World War. In August 1914, Bavarians, Prussians, Saxons,...
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The Tuscan Connection
Since the Restoration, the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany was a centre of republican conspirations, as mentioned above about Marmocchi’s experience. In...
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The Need for Compromise
This chapter examines military relations between Prussia and the non-Prussian kingdoms. Some Prussian leaders were less than satisfied with the...
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Germany I: The Reconstruction of General Education
This chapter first provides a brief historical overview of the “traditional” German system from its creation in the early nineteenth century to its...
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Demokratisches Regieren im Föderalismus: Neue Literatur zu einem alten Thema
Comparative federalism is a flourishing research field. Over the last decade, scholars showed growing interest in the democratic quality of...
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The Danger Within
This chapter shows how military federalism encouraged fears about dual loyalties throughout the German army. The Kings of Bavaria, Saxony, and...
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Risorgimento Historiography and Plural Notions of Freedom
In this chapter, I analyse some contrasting definitions of Risorgimento in Italian and international historiography, reading them through notions of...
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Warrior Princes
This chapter highlights the determination of Germany’s lesser monarchs to preserve their martial reputations. Over the course of the “long”...
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A Lost Decade
The period following Italy’s entry into the European Monetary Union was marked by the stagnation of the Italian economy and the relaxation of reform...
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The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Origins of Globalization
This chapter illuminates the relationship between New York City’s fiscal crisis in 1975 and its reinvention as a global city in the 1980s. It argues...
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Racialized Nationalism and Nation-Building
The rise of racialized nationalism in Sudan was a product of racialized historiography of Africa, which was shaped by the Hamitic Hypothesis. This...
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Lancaster House Independence Constitutional Negotiations, 1960–1963
Kenya’s constitutional negotiations for the critical 1960–1963 period that produced the independence constitution (December 12, 1963) involved three...
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Kenyan Public Intellectuals and National Development Debates
The major debates discussed in this chapter are first majimboism in Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) and KANU ranks in the 1960s. The second is...