Bloody Glamour
Tim Parks: Giuseppe Mazzini, 30 April 2009
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism 1830-1920
edited by C.A. Bayly and Eugenio Biagini.
Oxford, 419 pp., £45, September 2008,978 0 19 726431 7 Show More
edited by C.A. Bayly and Eugenio Biagini.
Oxford, 419 pp., £45, September 2008,
“... On 22 February 1854, James Buchanan, then the American ambassador in London but soon to be president of the US, celebrated George Washington’s birthday with a dinner to which Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi were invited. At Mazzini’s request other leading revolutionaries were present: Kossuth (Hungary), Worcell (Poland), Ruge (Germany), Herzen (Russia) and Ledru-Rollin (France ... ”
