| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity. By Paola Gemme. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xii, 204 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2707-7.)

Well in advance of the "transnational" turn in American studies, European revolutions have figured prominently in historians' accounts of U.S. domestic political and cultural conflicts. Among American historians, the 1789 French Revolution has always been regarded as an event that polarized American politics during the early years of the republic. More recently, historians have argued that the Paris Commune was central to the retreat from Reconstruction by the northern middle class. Horrified by threats to property and the bourgeois social order at home and abroad, depictions of the Paris uprising were used to discredit attempts by northern workers and southern blacks to advance their interests through democratic means. But as Paola Gemme pointed out in her study of American responses to, and uses of, Italy's nationalist revolutions, American historians have paid much less attention to the Europe-wide revolutions of 1848, especially Italy's. Well researched and coherently argued, Domesticating Foreign Struggles helps fill that gap.

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