Description: Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history and reexamines both countries' struggle to create an independent, unified nation and the ongoing effort to instill national identity in their diverse populace.
Brief description: DON H. DOYLE is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. His books include Nations Divided (Georgia) and Faulkner's County.
Review Quotes:
In this deceptively small book, Doyle tackles two of the most important questions of modern history, namely the nature of nationalism and the construction of nationhood.
--H-Net