A political history of national citizenship and identity in Italy, 1861-1950 / Sabina Donati.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-394) and index.

National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the origins of Italian monarchical subjecthood (1859-1866) -- "Becoming visible" : Italian women and their male co-citizens in the liberal state -- Foreign immigration, citizenship and Italianità in the peninsula : Italiani non regnicoli, non-Italian immigrants and notions of alienhood -- "O migranti o briganti" : Italian emigration and nationality policies in the peninsula -- Liberal Italy's expansionism and citizenship issues (1880s-1922) : colonial subjects, citizens of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, and Dodecannesini -- Citizenship of women and their counterpart throughout the Ventennium -- Fascist Italy's colonized, annexed and occupied territories : citizenship policies and native populations in Mussolini's Roman Empire -- The armistice of 8 September, Brindisi and Salò : reflections on citizenship issues (1943-1945) -- The birth and the first developments of Italy's democratic republican citizenship (1946-1950) -- Conclusion : national citizenship and italianità in historical perspective.