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Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world?

Exploring theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, this book analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their nation state and the monarchy, class conflicts, and the emergence of various belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.

This book is among the rare contributions to the 150th anniversary of 1848 which takes a completely new, theoretically informed approach. The book offers original research on the history of European ideas and takes part in the current debate about the relationship between history and memory.