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Under the Volcano - Revolution in a Sicilian Town (Hardcover, New)
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Under the Volcano - Revolution in a Sicilian Town (Hardcover, New)
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During the momentous events that shook Italy in 1860 as the nation
was unified, there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of
Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter, Bronte became a
symbol - of the limits of the liberal Risorgimento and of the
persistence of foreign domination: descendants of Admiral Horatio
Nelson had the largest landholding in the town and the British were
said to have put pressure on Garibaldi to crush the uprising, which
his lieutenant did with brutality. Lucy Riall has used the
discovery of a new archive to transform brilliantly this episode
into an ambitious exploration of much larger themes. Relaying an
often brutal tale of poverty, injustice, and mismanagement, her
powerful and engaging narrative also opens windows onto the true
meaning of the British presence. Bronte's story becomes one that is
also about Britain's policy towards Italy and Europe in the
nineteenth century, and about colonial rule overseas in the age of
Empire. It shows what happened when these two different aspects of
British power bumped into each other in one Sicilian town.
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