Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento

1. Introduction: Britain and Italy, Religion and Politics
Danilo Raponi

2. Italy as the ‘European India’: British orientalism, cultural imperialism, and anti-Catholicism, c. 1850–1870
Danilo Raponi

3. British missionary societies in Italy: evangelising a hostile land, 1850–1862
Danilo Raponi

4. Religion and foreign policy: from Unification to the ‘desperate folly’ of the Syllabus, 1861–1864
Danilo Raponi

5. British missionaries and Catholic reaction: searching the soul of the new nation, 1862–1872
Danilo Raponi

6. Protestant foreign relations and the last years of the Roman Question, 1865–1875
Danilo Raponi

7. Conclusion: ‘Great’ because Protestant, ‘Oriental’ because Catholic
Danilo Raponi

Keywords: History, Cultural History, History of Italy, History of Philosophy, Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History