| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815–1861. By Enrico Dal Lago. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xx, 372 pp. $62.95, ISBN 0-8071-3087-7.)
Comparisons between the U.S. South and the Italian South have been brewing on both sides of the Atlantic for a long time, and they coalesced at two major international conferences during the 1990s ("The Southern Question: Nationalisms and Regionalisms in Italy and the United States" in Naples, June 1997, and the Commonwealth Fund Conference "Toward an Agenda for Comparative Study of the American and the Italian South" in London, January 1999). This idea finally comes to complete fruition with Enrico Dal Lago's book.	1
Building on the inspirations derived from those international forums and drawing on an established tradition of comparative studies, Dal Lago undertakes the difficult task of weaving together into a viable narrative the histories of two southern regions apparently so far apart, but similar in many respects. The most striking similarity between them is that crucial turns in their historical course occurred in the same year: 1861 marked both the outbreak of the American Civil War and the formation of the southern Confederacy, and the collapse of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the unification of Italy.	. . .

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