It was not the irredentist movements that triggered the Great War, but they certainly contributed powerfully to destabilizing the European continent, and then became formidable instruments of mass mobilization once the conflict had begun. In 2014, as the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War approached, the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Trieste, in agreement with the academic authorities and in partnership with the Regional Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Regional Institute for Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Culture, and the Deputation of Homeland History for Venezia Giulia, has...