Is the Risorgimento an important part of Canadian history?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@virtuous_sloth @Anibyl I promised you neither legitimacy nor utility!

[spraoi@tooting.ch]

@evan Yes, but very few people understand that.

The impact was almost the same as it was on Western Switzerland (Romandie) but it's more obvious here, with statues to Garabaldi and Pestalozzi etc.

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@evan @Anibyl
Touché.

And I promised you no answer!

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@evan @Anibyl
But my answer was no.

[anibyl@social.coop]

@evan I don't think that major events in other countries that that contributed to immigration are important parts of Canadian history. Like Russian Revolution isn't. It's important to understand the causes on the global scale, but it's not really a part of what happened here.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@Anibyl So, Canadian history is everything that happened inside the current borders of Canada?

[anibyl@social.coop]

@evan Mainly? Otherwise, what's the point of it being Canadian?

If you take a course on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics won't be an important part of it — but it'd be referenced and compared to.

You can't just pile everything together — sometimes it's important to focus.

[carkner@glammr.us]

@Anibyl @evan

as a historian I disagree heh.

I don't have a strong opinion about the Italy thing, but ..
look up the New Imperial History school of thought which discusses how economic and population forces work at great distances affecting and defining local history in ways which were previously ignored. it's a whole thing.

[anibyl@social.coop]

@carkner @evan Would you even define such a thing as “Canadian history” in this framework?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@carkner @Anibyl I think there are very few Canadian historians who would say that the Battle of Vimy Ridge wasn't an important part of Canadian history even though it happened off Canadian soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge