Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Xavier Tabet
Taking into account the re-emergence of the «idea of a nation» on the political and the intellectual scenes, the author explores the meaning of this new «longing for a fatherland». Within the context of a return of the question of „italianness“, contrasted as it may be, he stresses the fact that, for at least the last fifteen years (with something like a discrepancy between political time and intellectual time), we have witnessed the appearance of a new interest for the question of Italian „literary identity“ among the literary critics and historians. Relying on the analysis of a number of books which lie at the core of what might be called l’italianologia letteraria, he tries to understand how the questioning relative to national identity seems to be spreading, as if by contamination, to the field of literary criticism. He focuses on how we have come to reexamine the fundamental characteristics of Italian literary historiography in a sometimes highly critical manner toward the „risorgimental“ paradigms elaborated at the inception of the „literary nation“.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Catherine Brice
Though considered for a long time by historians as a minor actor of Italian’s nation building process, monarchy did play a part in the decades between 1861 and the turn of the century. The Author tries to reconstruct this role around four main aspects. The first one lies in identifying the piedmontese dynasty with its Italian destiny. The story of the Savoia has been rewritten and presented as a genuinely Italian one, along with the invention of a history of the Risorgimento tending to become always more consensual, erasing as much as possible the differences between the King, Victor Emanuel II and Garibaldi, for instance. The second aspect lies in the «possession» of the territory by the King Humbert Ist and his wife, Queen Margherita, through a regular practice of royal visits, aimed at a better knowledge of the populations, at a staging of Monarchy under different aspects (visiting the workers, the Church, local aristocracies etc). Third, Italian monarchy has tried to build up new national/dynastic rituals though festivities such as the festa dello Statuto or royal funerals. And the king and queen have build up a strong network for philanthropy, in a country where on this field, the State was competing with the traditional catholic chrity. Finally there has been a political issue in monarchical circles or groups that have been active in the Italian territory at the end of the XIXth century.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Dunja DogoFrom mid 1920s on, in Soviet Russia the 1825 Decembrist revolts were considered not only as an historical inheritance whether be hoarded (from the Bolshevik Party point of view) but also an object of study for the purpose of telling a story o…
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Henk te Velde, Anne Petterson
‘Orangism’ and Nation Building in the Netherlands in the 19th Century In the Netherlands a popular attachment to the later royal family existed even before its accession to the throne in 1813-1815. In the second half of the nineteenth century this popular ‘Orangism’ was stimulated by Liberal politics, commerce and the House of Orange itself and it was used as a means to overcome socio-religious divisions. In this case nation building appears to be much more a process of negotiation and interaction between social classes and groups rather than a top-down process, as it has often been presented. The case of the Dutch monarchy demonstrates the shift from an early nineteenth-century state-centred type of nation building, in which the monarchy played an important political role, to a more societal type of nationalism that wanted to please and mobilize the masses. Around 1900 Dutch nationalism would reach a peak and it was hard to conceive of an element of cultural nation building that did not involve the monarchy.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
e Redazione di «Memoria e Ricerca» Direzione
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Volker SellinDuring the revolution of 1848 the Frankfurt national assembly failed in their attempt to create a German national state by reconciling the existing monarchies with popular sovereignty. When in 1871 the unification of Germany was accomplish…
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Raffaello Ares Doro
The evolution of free radios in France between 1977 and 1989 contributed to redefine the French audiovisual landscape determining the end of the public monopoly of the broadcasting service. Free radios represented one of the last evolutions of May ’68, expressing the point of view of minority political groups and of local communities. After a period of illegality between 1977 and 1981, free radios were allowed with the election of Francois Mitterrand in May 1981. Despite various attempts by the socialist government to maintain these new media inside the associative sector, forbidding fundings from commercials and the concentration among radios, the broadcasting stations started to be influenced by market logics. However, the intervention of political groups aimed at regulating the radiophonic sector – unlike it was happening in Italy during those same years – guaranteed the existence of associative and community radios through public grants, proving the social importance of alternative mass media, local for contents and radiophonic organization.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Andrzej Olechnowicz
The United Kingdom in 1914 was an oddity: a unitary state in which one parliament governed four nations. Yet the political challenges faced by the British monarchy were perhaps less serious than those faced by other European states. The widespread attachment to a ‘constitutional monarchy’ which reigned but did not rule meant that the monarch was accepted as standing outside partisan party politics, and ensured that periods of heightened party political division had little impact on the popular standing of the institution. Furthermore, nation-building seemed more an established fact, than an on-going process. The post-Victorian monarchy paid some attention to the four component parts of its realm; but even in Ireland the monarchy was not called upon to play a decisive role or to face a determined opposition. As an imperial monarchy it gave symbolic force to the idea of ‘the British Empire’. Finally, royal secretaries almost always succeeded in containing any ill-conceived personal initiatives by monarchs.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Dario Miccoli
Starting with the 1948 Palestine War and ending with the 1956 Suez War, virtually all the Jews left Egypt and in most cases migrated to Europe, Israel and the USA. However, even decades after the migration, Egypt remains for them an unforgettable homeland and a much-loved lieu de memoire. This article aims to reconstruct how, in the last years, Egyptian Jews have historicized and remembered Egypt on the Internet. Looking at the websites of two Egyptian Jewish associations based in France and Israel respectively, it will become clear to what extent the Internet can contribute to there-narration and circulation of one’s past. Furthermore, the websites analyzed can be interpreted as part of a new kind of archive in which history, memory and autobiography mix together. Even though focused on a specific case-study, the article also investigates some of the challenges that historians are increasingly facing when it comes to the Internet and the usage of digital sources.
Mai 16, 2013, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (42/2013), Allgemein.
Catherine Brice, Javier Moreno Luzòn
