Download or read book Converting a Nation written by A. Lang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.