Enrico Dal Lago: Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy

History Tavern Podcast

National University of Ireland Galway Professor Enrico Dal Lago talked about his book "Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy." Dal Lago places the American Civil War in the global context by comparing and connecting it to the Great Brigandage in Southern Italy in the 1860s. While historians have spent years covering nation-building and social revolution in nineteenth-century Europe, Dal Lago offers a fresh perspective of the American Civil War by linking it to the agrarian uprising that occurred in Southern Italy during Italian unification.