Italy to Argentina : : travel writing and emigrant colonialism / / Tullio Pagano.

"In Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism, Tullio Pagano examines Italian emigration to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata region through the writings of Italian economists, poets, anthropologists, and political activists from the 1860s to the beginning of World War I. He s...

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Place / Publishing House:Amherst, Massachusetts : : Amherst College Press,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : From Genoa to Le Havre with a pot of chestnuts
  • 1. Free to leave : a liberal economist looks at emigration
  • 2. The anthropologist as entrepreneur : Paolo Mantegazza's real and imaginary journeys to South America
  • 3. American tears : Edmondo De Amicis and the remaking of Italians in Argentina
  • 4. From free emigration to imperialism: the debunking of the Argentine myth
  • 5. The whole world is our homeland: Italian transnational anarchism in Argentina
  • 6. In the shadow of "Great Men": Gina Lombroso's travels to South America.