| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Paola Gemme. Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 204. $39.95.

The movement toward a comparative approach to American Studies and its internationalization receives an important contribution from Paola Gemme's volume. In her analysis of nineteenth-century American responses to the Italian struggle for independence and unification, known as the Risorgimento, Gemme shows how the Italian scene often served as an important term of reference in discourses on national identity. Seen as a sort of emulation of the process that had led, in the previous century, to the birth of the United States, the Risorgimento was narrated, discussed, interpreted, and portrayed in American journalism, essays, historical studies, fiction, and poetry as well as the figurative arts. Focusing on the shared narrative quality of these different genres and media, Gemme offers a comprehensive and compelling panorama of antebellum American views on the international role of the United States and the character of American democracy.

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