649 Book Reviews and acting, studio vs. independent production, experimental vs. orthodox styles, and animation’s relationship to technology. In this way, the anthology’s introduction may have ofered less on explicating the arguments of individual chapters, and more in teasing out these more intricate themes potentially traceable across the book’s varied contributions. Yet in whatever alternate confgurations they might have appeared, the collected chapters ofer readers an impressive cross-section of micro-histories and theoretical interventions relating to a topic that is itself being continually redefned and reconstructed. Global Animation Theory might not quite be as successful as the sum of its parts, but it is in its parts that its signifcant contribution to the study of animation can be found. Christopher Holliday King’s College London Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World. By Anna Procyk. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2019. xiv, 273 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $56.25, hard bound. doi: 10.1017/slr.2020.164 “The fact that the Italian revolutionary became genuinely interested in Slavic literature, in particular in the works of Polish Romantic poets, deepened his under- standing of the spiritual world of this part of Europe, which was still practically unknown to most intellectuals in the West. . . . The 1830s—the period of Young Europe’s most intensive drive for revolutionary action—paved the ground for the national renaissance that exploded in the next decade” (34–35, 200). Anna Procyk is professor emerita in the Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. Her analysis of Giuseppe Mazzini’s (1805–1872) infuence on Polish and Ukrainian political activists in the frst three decades of the nineteenth century should be read by every student of east European history, intellectual history, and political theory. Mazzini’s thought and activism have to be understood as a reaction against the stipulations of the Vienna Congress of 1815: Napoleon had ignited the fre of freedom in Europe, and the reactionary regime of Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859) sought to quench the last sparks of that fre. Owing to Mazzini’s Young Europe activists, a secular and intimate group of intellectuals aiming at the liberation of the oppressed, the Spring of Nations of 1848 would erupt violently in many European cities, most notably Vienna, Prague, and Paris. Owing to her superb mastery of Ukrainian, Slovak, Russian, and Italian sources, Procyk closes an important gap that scholars of east European studies have hitherto neglected: the post-1815 activities of revolutionary activists. She convincingly shows how Mazzini’s idea of a revolution based on principles of national unity and democracy, that is, the integration of all social classes into the revolutionary and national liberation movement, took root in national groups ruled by foreign monarchs. While Mazzini’s plan of Italian unity resulted in the successful Risorgimento movement led by Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), the Slavs were not that lucky. The Poles would achieve sovereign statehood only in 1918, while the Ukrainians had to wait until 1991. Besides the Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), the principal thinker of the modernist art movement of Futurism, Mazzini is probably one of the most famous Italian theoreticians; his thought and political activities have been subjected to scholarly scrutiny, among them Roland