Introduction: Transnational Comparisons in Nineteenth-Century History in Theory and Practice
Part1: Transnational Comparison of Historical Individuals
1. “We Cherished the Same Hostility to Every Form of Tyranny”: Transatlantic Parallels and Contacts between William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini
Part2: Transnational Comparison of Historical Groups
2. American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners in the Age of the “Second Slavery”: Economics, Labour Management, and Regional Politics
Part3: Transnational Comparison of Historical Cities
3.The City as Social Display: Agrarian Elites and Urban Images in Charleston and Palermo
Part4: Transnational Comparison of Historical Events
4.Emancipation from Slavery and Serfdom, and Land Rights: The Americas and Eastern Europe Compared
Part5: Transnational Comparison of Historical Processes
5. The U.S. Civil War Era, the Italian Risorgimento Era, and Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Nationalisms
Part6: Transnational Comparison of Historical Beliefs
6. Empires, Workers, and Saints: “Progressive Imperialism”, Working-Class Radicalism, and the Rise of New Millennial Cults in the United States and Italy in the 1870s. Conclusion