Republicanism
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Carlo Cattaneo rarely gave a thought to Italy’s political organization, at least not in his published writings, until his involvement in the Revolutions of 1848 turned his world upside down. A native of Milan and a subject of the Austrian Empire after the Congress of Vienna, Cattaneo (1801–1869) did not begin as a revolutionary. The
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But what are nations? What are these groups which are so familiar to us, and yet, if we stop to think, so strange…? Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics (1872) The nation-state, especially as it took shape in Europe during the nineteenth century, was perhaps the most paradoxical political institution of its age. Its impact on
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