Rethinking the Age of Emancipation : : Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918 / / ed. by Philipp Lenhard, Martin Baumeister, Ruth Nattermann.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, traditional historiography has emphasized the similarities between Italy and Germany as “late nations”, including the parallel roles of “great men” such as Bismarck and Cavour. Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the developm...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • SECTION 1 CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES
  • CHAPTER 1 Nineteenth-Century Italy and Germany beyond National History
  • CHAPTER 2 Rethinking Nation and Family
  • SECTION 2 FAMILY AND NATION
  • CHAPTER 3 The Morenos between Family and Nation: Notes on the History of a Bourgeois Mediterranean Jewish Family (1850–1912)
  • CHAPTER 4 Portrait of a “Political Lady” Family Ties and National Activism around 1848 in the Italian and German States
  • CHAPTER 5 Emancipation, Religious Affiliation, and Family Status around 1900
  • SECTION 3 RELIGION AND EDUCATION
  • Chapter 6 The Legacy of Adam and Eve Morality and Gender in Jewish “Catechisms” in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • Chapter 7 The Transformation of Jewish Education in Nineteenth-Century Italy: The Meaning of “Catechisms”
  • CHAPTER 8 Religion and Nation: Catholic and Protestant Female Education and Cultural Models in Germany (1871–1914)
  • CHAPTER 9 Women for the Homeland: Comparing Catholic and Protestant Female Education in Italy (1848–1908)
  • SECTION 4 POLITICS OF WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION
  • CHAPTER 10 Denomination Matters: Strategies of Self-Designation of the German Women’s Movement
  • CHAPTER 11 German and Italian Advocates for Women’s Emancipation at the International Congress on Women’s Achievements and Women’s Endeavors in Berlin (1896)
  • SECTION 5 PATRIOTISM AND GENDER
  • CHAPTER 12 Historian between Two Fatherlands: Robert Davidsohn and World War I
  • CHAPTER 13 Between Motherhood and Patriotic Duty: Marital Correspondence as a Key Source for the Understanding of French-Jewish Women’s Perspectives on World War I
  • SECTION 6 WAR AND VIOLENCE
  • CHAPTER 14 “An Expression of Horror and Sadness”? (Non)Communication of War Violence against Civilians in Ego Documents (Austria-Hungary)
  • CHAPTER 15 Hunger, Rape, Escape The Many Aspects of Violence against Women and Children in the Territories of the Italian Front
  • SECTION 7 WAR EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY
  • CHAPTER 16 The Construction of the Enemy in Two Jewish Writers: Carolina Coen Luzzatto and Enrica Barzilai Gentilli
  • CHAPTER 17 Heroic Fathers, Patriotic Mothers, Fallen Sons: National Belonging and Political Positioning in Italian-Jewish Families’ Versions of World War I
  • CHAPTER 18 The Commemoration of Jewish Soldiers in Austria
  • Index