Regionalism
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This essay is about incivilimento, the process whereby a people becomes civilized. The subject interested Italians, who in the early nineteenth century worried that their country, once considered the epitome of civilization, had fallen hopelessly behind other European nations. In 1832, the philosopher and jurist Gian Domenico Romagnosi published his Dell’indole e dei fattori dell’incivilimento,…
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What are borders? Why do we have them? What purpose do they serve? Are they purely artificial, lines drawn on maps by politicians, or do they have counterparts in nature? These are questions we rarely ask, and yet they are important given that borders of all kinds are a ubiquitous feature of our world, a…
World without Borders 