DON H. DOYLE is Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is coeditor of The South As an American Problem (Georgia) and author of such books as Faulkner's County and New Men, New Cities, New South.
A wise, elegant, and erudite analysis of the meaning of nationalism
in the modern world. This is comparative history of high
quality.--George M. Fredrickson "Stanford University"
Doyle has written an original and ambitious book on the
nation-building experience in the United States and Italy. Nations
Divided makes an important contribution to the growing literature
on comparative nationalism and offers a convincing analysis of how
the factors that make a nation can also prove its undoing.--Lucy
Riall "University of London"
Doyle illustrates vividly the wisdom of C. Vann Woodward's
observation that, when viewed in global perspective, the experience
of the American South seems far less distinctive. Doyle's
masterfully integrated comparison of the north-south dynamic in
Italy and the United States is richly insightful yet remarkably
concise. This is comparative history at its most lucid and usable
best.--James C. Cobb "University of Georgia"
[A] thought-provoking interpretive volume . . . Nations Divided is
an admirable interpretive essay that should be of great interest to
students of the United States and Italy, their two Souths, and
comparative history.--Journal of Southern History
A bold and successful demonstration of how one's expertise can be
put to the service of a historical culture attuned to the needs of
the present, global age. . . . [A] gracious overview of the
historical experiences of two nations--and their respective
Souths--which, though so different in many regards, appear, in the
end, not so far apart after all.--Southern Cultures
Doyle has provided a useful contribution to the literature,
particularly in summarizing recent thought on nationalism. In the
process, in lively prose, Doyle has posed to his readers a series
of provocative analogies in the histories of the two
peoples.--Florida Historical Quarterly
In this deceptively small book, Doyle tackles two of the most
important questions of modern history, namely the nature of
nationalism and the construction of nationhood.--H-Net
There is much to recommed in Doyle's new book. It is the first
full-length study to compare the creation of the American and
Italian nations in the context of the growing historiography on the
origins and meaning of modern nationalism. . . .Doyle provides a
clear summary of much of the necessary background information a
historian needs before embarking on the difficult task of
comparision.--International History Review
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