Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Introduction 1. Before Italians: Making Italian culture at home and abroad 2. Making Italians at home and abroad, 1790-1893 3. Workers of the World, 1870-1914 4. Transnationalism as a way of working-class life 5. Nationalism and internationalism in Italy's proletarian diasporas, 1870 - 1914 6. Nation, empire and diaspora: Fascism and its opponents 7. Postwar Italy: from sending to receiving Nation 8. Civilta italiana and the making of multi-ethnic nations

This ambitious and theoretically innovative overview examines the social, cultural and economic integration of Italian migrants. It explores their complex identity and their relationship with their homeland.