Garibaldi's radical legacy: traditions of war volunteering in Southern Europe (1861-1945)

"Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the Second World War involved particularly large numbers of transnational fighters. The need to...

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Beteilige Person: Acciai, Enrico 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Weavil, Victoria 1984- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, New York Routledge [2021]
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429444760
Zusammenfassung:"Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the Second World War involved particularly large numbers of transnational fighters. The need to fight Fascism wherever it presented itself was undoubtedly the main motivation behind these fighters' decision to mobilize. Despite all this, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that some of these volunteers felt they were the last exponents of a tradition of armed volunteering which, in their case, originated in the 19th century. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe Garibaldi's legacy in Southern Europe between the unification of Italy (1861) and the end of the Second World War (1945). This book seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the long-term, interconnected, and radical dimensions of the so called Garibaldinism"--
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (209 Seiten)
ISBN:9780429816055
0429816057
9780429444760
0429444761
9780429816062
0429816065
9780429816048
0429816049
DOI:10.4324/9780429444760