Autore
Capone, Alessandro

Titolo
Il brigantaggio meridionale: una rassegna storiografica
Periodico
Le Carte e la storia
Anno: 2015 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 32 - Pagina finale: 40

The article places the origins of Italian scientific historiography on Southern reactionarybrigandage in the political and intellectual contexts after the two World Wars. In both postwarperiods the need to rethink the structures of the Italian state inspired new research aboutthe resistances to unification. Drawing on 19th-century literature and on Gramsci's thought,historians adopted a land paradigm, which led them to read the rural brigandage as a formof class struggle. Fostered by the debate on Hobsbawm's work on social banditry, betweenthe 1970s and the 1990s new studies on brigandage showed its complexity and its relationswith traditional rural criminality. The land paradigm thus proved to be too rigid. In recentyears the rise of multidisciplinary research on civil wars, guerrilla and transnational armed volunteers induced a number of Italian and foreign scholars to turn again the attention tobrigandage, the understanding of which, consequently, is deeply changing.



SICI: 1123-5624(2015)2<32:IBMURS>2.0.ZU;2-1
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