Emigrant nation : the making of Italy abroad / Mark I. Choate. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - x, 319 p. : ill., c. geogr. ; 25 cm.
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Introduction: The program of emigrant colonialism -- From Africa to the Americas -- The great ethnographic empire -- Migration and money -- The language of Dante -- For religion and for the fatherland -- Emigration and the new nationalism -- Earthquake, pestilence, and world war -- Conclusion: Toward a global nation.