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Article: Cavour. (book reviews)
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- History Today
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- February 1, 1996
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Mustafa Kemal assumed the title of Ataturk, father of the nation, in recognition of his outstanding personal role in the establishment of the independent Turkish state. It could easily be argued that Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot who deposed the Habsburgs in Hungary in 1849, and Camillo Cavour, who engineered the departure of the Habsburgs from Italian soil during the risorgimento of 1859-60, were also the fathers of their respective nations. The appearance of these three books enables us to compare and contrast their conceptions of nation and nationalism.
Cavour's nationalism was an extension of his liberalism. An economic and political liberal, he believed ...