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Axel Körner, America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017)
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Showing how Italian political thought was shaped by American political debate, Axel Körner shows that European interest in developments across the Atlantic was more than just blind admiration. America became a sounding board for the critical assessment of societal changes at home.