Brothers of Liberty
Garibaldi's British Legion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Bacchin (0000-0002-7222-4754, Scuola Normale Superiore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 827-853 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x1400051x |
| OpenAlex | W2225649978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines the enrollment of a brigade of armed volunteers which took place in Great Britain in summer 1860 to help the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy. Through the narrative strategies used to promote the enlistment and the images of the brigade that circulated in both Great Britain and Italy, it reveals features of a cosmopolitanism of nations and of a commitment based on transnational values spread in the nineteenth century. This article argues that the narratives used to mobilize men for a foreign cause not only shared values of freedom, justice, fraternity among nations, and a romantic appeal, but they had a strong national connotation. It was British pride in its freedom and constitution that gave the power and legitimacy to interfere in foreign affairs. Moreover, joining foreign causes strengthened a sentiment of British national pride and identity. The Legion's organizational and disciplinary problems also shed light on the biases and difficulties that troubled these kinds of expeditions and on the latent contradictions between a sense of patriotic duty, the transnational ideals that dominated the rhetoric, and the underlying disillusionment and frustration of the daily routine
Aesthetics · Art · Duty · Economic Justice · Foreign policy · Identity (music · Legitimacy · Literature · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Pride · Rhetoric · Sociology · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The international armed volunteers
French volunteers in Italy, 1848–49
German volunteers in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento 1834–70
That dangerous serpent
Irish public opinion and the Risorgimento, 1859–60
Protestantism, Nationalism, and National Identity, 1660–1832
Emotions, rationality and political intentionality in patriotic discourse
Notaries, Truth, and Consequences
Indolence and Regeneration
Les volontaires français avec Garibaldi en 1860
The Beginnings of English Imperialism
Race and Empire
Martyr Cults in Nineteenth-Century Italy
British History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |