This article employs a transnational perspective to examine the relationship between food and drink consumption by Italians in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Italy's process of nation-building. The phenomena of emigration and colonisation were often interlinked, especially after Italy's defeat at Adua, Ethiopia, in 1896. This threw prime minister Francesco Crispi's form of colonialism into crisis and launched a different approach, based on the creation of a ‘Greater Italy’: a sort of Commonwealth based on cultural and economic ties between the Kingdom of Italy and Italian communities abroad. They were asked to be the bridgehead for Italy's economic and cultural expansion by consuming its exports, especially food and drink products. This required the development of shared feelings of national belonging among the emigrants, by breaking down the local identities that still prevailed and were particularly evident in the sphere of diet, as well as in religion, social life and language. The article analyses the promotional material that reflected the drive to foster Italian national sentiment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which helped to create an Italy both within and outside national borders.

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美国意大利移民饮食消费中的民族主义和国家建设：跨国视角

本文采用跨国视角来考察 19 世纪和 20 世纪在美国的意大利人的饮食消费与意大利国家建设过程之间的关系。移民和殖民现象往往是相互关联的，尤其是在 1896 年意大利在埃塞俄比亚阿杜瓦战败之后。这使总理弗朗切斯科·克里斯皮的殖民主义形式陷入危机，并基于“大意大利”的创建采取了不同的方法：一种基于意大利王国与国外意大利社区之间的文化和经济联系的联邦。他们被要求通过消费其出口产品，尤其是食品和饮料产品，成为意大利经济和文化扩张的桥头堡。这需要通过打破仍然盛行并且在饮食、宗教、社会生活和语言领域特别明显的当地身份认同，在移民之间发展共同的民族归属感。本文分析了宣传材料，这些材料反映了 19 世纪和 20 世纪促进意大利民族情绪的动力，并有助于在国界内外建立意大利。