Part I. Nineteenth-century American abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism -- Radicalism and nationalism: northern "liberators" and southern laborers in the United States and Italy, 1830-1860 -- Purging nations with blood: John Brown, Pisacane, social justice, and guerrilla warfare -- Part II. Lincoln, Cavour, and "progressive nationalism" -- Economic progress, markets, and railways in Lincoln's and Cavour's early careers -- "Progressive nationalism," politics, and national unifications: Lincoln and Cavour after 1850 -- Part III. Secession, Civil War, and nation-building in the United States and Italy -- The specter of Confederate secession in early post-unification Italy -- Inner civil wars in the Confederate south and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861-1865.
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