Roots of the Risorgimento: Italian Unification Introduction
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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I'm hoping to make this a regular series and go all the way until 1871. I want to spend time and talk about the more glossed over parts of Unification.
Bravo ...bella lezione di storia 🇮🇹🇮🇹👍
thanks a lot! wonderful video! hope you can do more videos about European history. xoxo
Thank you! I'm releasing videos on early American history right now, and I will be for a while, but I'd love to pick this back up some day!
Great job man 😊😊😊
I think you're my #1 fan I really appreciate your support!
great video! saludos desde argentina 🇦🇷
thank you so much for the video..... will b a great help for my exams. thank you.
Great video, what program are you using?
I struggle to understand the need for national unity in the first place. What benefit would e.g two sicilies gain from being part of Italy? It wasn't economic as even today southern Italy remains equally poor. So it must be philosophical; what is it that drives nationalism.
I support nationalism in the 19th century sence (not the way it's been dirtied by fascism) but I honestly don't know why beyond an Ideal of all people of one language and broadly similar culture should be represented under a single body.
Great question! Honestly this was the exact sentiment of a lot of southern italians during unification, as the industrialized north could really dominate the poorer south, a division that as you pointed out still exists today. One factor that I mention in my later videos was that southern italy was ruled by a non-italian royal family: the Bourbons, and the peninsula was subjected to Austrian influence pretty much everywhere but Sardinia-Piedmont. Anti-foreigner sentiments as well as sweeping anti-monarchy feelings in general may have prompted southern italians to think "I don't like these northerners, but I REALLY don't like these french/austrians that are messing with my country". Even if unification would mess with their economic status quo, there was enough opposition to foreign influence that southerners ended up supporting unification (to a certain extent). Hope I could give some more context!
Being part of an actual modern state and not a XIX Century version of North Korea was good enough.
Everyone mentioning all the whole north-south economic gap forget how much the crown and the clergy (and the organized crime [which YES it existed and was engaged in keeping in line the people]) worked hard against any innovation, be it cultural or economic. The south lost the brain in the 1799 counter-revolution