Daniel Banks joins the show to talk about this writing and research into the logistics networks, particularly the maritime and naval networks, that helped Guiseppe Garibaldi succeed in this reunification of Italy in 1860. Daniel Banks is a postdoctoral fellow in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, Italy. He is currently working on completing a book manuscript that shows how groups of political agitators used the Mediterranean Sea's business and transport networks to foment revolutions that transformed states and empires like Italy, Spain, France and French Algeria from the 1850s to the 1870s. He can be followed on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/danielobanche.bsky.social
Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (Yale University Press, 2007), by Lucy Riall.
Enrico Acciai with a more long-term history of Garibaldi's legacy in the terms of war volunteering
Maurizio Isabella providing a good summary of histories of Italy in the nineteenth-century
David Sims with using a "follow the money" approach to Irish nationalism in the same time period
And finally some background on the nineteenth-century Mediterranean