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The Risorgimento: A Multinational Movement, Dominique Reill Dec 2011

The Risorgimento: A Multinational Movement, Dominique Reill

Dominique Kirchner Reill

No abstract provided.


Nationalists Who Feared The Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism In Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, And Venice, Dominique Reill Dec 2011

Nationalists Who Feared The Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism In Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, And Venice, Dominique Reill

Dominique Kirchner Reill

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s who proposed the creation of a multinational zone surrounding the Adriatic Sea. At the time, the lands of the Adriatic formed a maritime community whose people spoke different languages and practiced different faiths but identified themselves as belonging to a single region of the Hapsburg Empire. While these activists hoped that nationhood could …


Bordertopia: Pacifico Valussi And The Challenge Of Borderlands In The Mid Nineteenth Century, Dominique Reill Dec 2010

Bordertopia: Pacifico Valussi And The Challenge Of Borderlands In The Mid Nineteenth Century, Dominique Reill

Dominique Kirchner Reill

This article seeks to answer the question why in the last months of the Provisional Government of Daniele Manin's Republic of Venice chose to rename the famous quay outside of the Ducal Palace, Riva degli Schiavoni, with the new name Riva degli Slavi. The author argues that this act should not be seen as just one more example of the unpragmatic utopianism that damned revolutionary war effort to ultimate failure in 1849. Instead the renaming of the Riva points to an entirely different strain of conceiving the potential futures of nationhood in the early to mid nineteenth century. Using the …


A Poet’S Struggle For A New Adriaticism In The Nineteenth Century, Dominique K. Reill Dec 2010

A Poet’S Struggle For A New Adriaticism In The Nineteenth Century, Dominique K. Reill

Dominique Kirchner Reill

No abstract provided.


A Mission Of Mediation: Dalmatia’S Multi-National Regionalism, 1830s-1860s, Dominique K. Reill Dec 2006

A Mission Of Mediation: Dalmatia’S Multi-National Regionalism, 1830s-1860s, Dominique K. Reill

Dominique Kirchner Reill

No abstract provided.