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This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the
military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The
comparative and transnational approach enables this work to compare
and contrast the Italian experience with that of many other
countries in the world as well as understand transfers and the
adaptive and imitative processes that emerge when conscription and
the military are viewed from an Italian perspective. Peacetime and
wartime recruitment, military life, culture, justice and
civil-military relationships are analysed using a wide range of
sources and an interdisciplinary approach that combines top-down
and bottom-up perspectives. This enables the book not only to
assess the contribution the military has made to the country in
terms of state-building, nation building, modernization,
pedagogical and disciplinary models, gender identity and roles, but
also to reconsider the standard taxonomies as well as some
established evolutionary models of the armies. Moreover, the
Italian military is seen as an internally complex world that is
incapable of defining its own one-dimensional identity or of
imposing any such identity on its members. Consequently, it is an
element in the history of a country that is substantially the same
as any other such element and thus important in people’s
collective and individual lives whether or not they are in uniform.
Rather than being an object of study in and of itself, the military
becomes a vantage point from which to observe the Italian history
in the long 19th century. Therefore, this book can be profitably
read by professional military historians and non-specialist readers
interested in the military, as well as by all scholars working on
Italian pre- and post-unification political, institutional,
socio-economic, cultural and gender history.
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