History of Modern Italy
Bibliography

 


General

Coppa, Frank, ed.  Modern Italian History:  An Annotated Bibliography.  Greenwood Press, 1990  DG545.C66.1990 [Ref.] 

Coppa, Frank, ed. Studies in Modern Italian History. From the Risorgimento to the Republic.  NY: Lang 1986. 

Coppa, Frank, ed.  Dictionary of Modern Italian History.  Greenwood Press, 1985. 

Lange, Peter, ed.  Studies on Italy, 1943-75: A Bibliography of Italian History. 

Lange, Peter, and Tarrow, S., eds.  Italy in Transition. London, 1980. JN5451.I88.1980 

Clark, Martin.  Modern Italy, 1871-1995.  London: Longman, 2nd edit. 1996. 

Duggan, Christopher.  A Concise History of Italy.  Cambridge University Press, 1994. 

Hearder, Harry.  Italy: A Short History. Cambridge University Press, 1990   DG468.H43.1963 

Hearder, Harry. Italy in the Age of Risorgimento, 1790-1870. Longman, 1983. DG551.H42.1983 

Frederic Spotts and Theodore Wieser. Italy:  A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1986 JN5451.S64.1986 

Sassoon, Don.  Contemporary Italy: Politics, Economy, and Society. London: Longman, 1986. DG577.5.S28 

Ginsborg, Paul.  A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988.  London: Penguin, 1990. DG572.G48.1990 

Mack Smith, Denis.  Italy: A Modern History.  University of Michigan Press. 1959  DG467.M1.1959 

Mack Smith, Denis. Italy and Its Monarchy. Yale University Press, 1989. DG552.M25.1989 

Woolf, Stuart J. A History of Italy, 1700-1860: the Social Constraints of Political Change.  London: Methuen, 1979 

Tannenbaum, E. R. and E. P. Noether, eds.  Modern Italy: A Topical History since 1861.  NY: NYU Press, 1974. 

Woolf, Stuart J. The Poor in Western Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries.  London: Methuen, 1986. 

Risorgimento [1814-1870] 

Acton, H.  The Last Bourbons of Naples (1825-1861).  London: Methuen, 1961. DG848.46.A18 

Beales, Derek.  The Risorgimento and the Unificiation of Italy.  London: Longman, 1981. 

Davis, John A.  Merchants, Monopolists and Contractors: A Study of Economic Activity in Bourbon Naples, 1815-1860.  NY: Arno, 1981. 

Davis, John A.  Conflict and Control: Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century Italy.  Macmillan, 1988. 

Davis, John A. and Paul Ginsborg, eds. Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento.  Cambridge University Press, 1991. 

Delzell, Charles F. The Unification of Italy, 1859-1861; Cavour, Mazzini or Garibaldi?  Drysden Press, 1965 DG554.D44 

Ginsborg, Paul.  Daniele Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848-49.  Cambridge University Press, 1979. 

Greenfield, K. R.  Economics and Liberalism in the Risorgimento.  A Study of Nationalism in Lombardy, 1814-1848.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1965. 

Hearder, Harry.  Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento.  NY: Longman, 1983.  DG551.H42.1983 

Hearder, Harry.  Cavour. London: Longman, 

Hibbert, Christopher.  Garibaldi and His Enemies.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.  DG552.8.G2.H62

Lovett, Clara.  Guiseppe Ferrari and the Italian Revolution.  Harvard University Press, 1982. 

Lovett, Clara.  The Democratic Movement in Italy, 1830-1876.  Harvard U. Press, 1982 DG552.5.L68 

Mack Smith, Denis.  Mazzini.  Yale University Press, 1994 
 On order. 

______.  The Making of Italy, 1796-1866.  Harper & Row, 1968.  DG551.M27.1968 [London: Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1988] 

Mack Smith, Denis.  Victor Emanuel, Cavour, and the Risorgimento.  London: Oxford University Press, 1971. 
 DG552.5.M15 

Mack Smith, Denis.  Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860.  Cambridge U. Press, 1957.  DG554.M1.1954 

Salvemini, Gaetano.  Mazzini. Stanford U. Press, 1957. DG552.8.M4.S18 

Thayer, William R. The Life and Times of Cavour.  Houghton Mifflin, 1911 DG552.8.C3.T37 

Treve1yan, George.  Garibaldi and the Making of Italy.  London: Green, 1911 DG552.8.G2.T81 
 
 

Foreign Policy

Bosworth, R. J. B.  Italy and the Approach of the First World War.  London: Macmillan, 1983. 

Gooch, John. Army, State and Society in Italy, 1870-1915.  Macmillan, 1989. 

Lowe, C. J. and F. Marzari.  Italian Foreign Policy, 1870-1940.  London: Routledge, 1975. 

The Catholic Church

Chadwick, Wilfred Owen.  The Popes and European Revolution.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.  BX1361.C45 

Coppa, Frank.  Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs.  SUNY Press, 1990.  BX4705.A625.C67 

Coppa, Frank J.  Pope Pius IX: Crusader in a Secular Age.  Boston: Twayne, 1979. 

Jemolo, A. C.   Church and State in Italy, 1850-1915. Tr. D. Moore. Oxford: Blackwell, 1960. BR876.J4.1960 

Poggi, G. F.  Catholic Action in Italy. Stanford University Press BX 2348.28I863 

Economic/Social History

Baily, Samuel L. and Franco Ramella.  One Family, Two Worlds: An Italian Family's Correspondence Across the Atlantic, 1901-1922.  Rutgers University Press, 1988 
 F3001.9.I8054 

Barbagli, Marzio. Educating for Unemployment: Politics, Labor Markets, and the School System, Italy, 1859-1973. Tr. R. Ross. NY: Columbia University Press, 1982. 

Bell, Donald.  Sesto San Giovanni: 1880-1922.  Rutgers University Press, 1986.  HD 8490.S472.B45 

Bell, Rudolph.  Fate and Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800.  University of Chicago Press, 1979 HN475.B38 

Douglass, William.  Emigration in a South Italian Town:  An Anthropological History.  Rutgers University Press, 1984.  DG975.A2229.D68 

Evans, Robert.  Life and Politics in a Venetian Community. University of Notre Dame, 1976  HN475.E82 

Kertzer, David.  Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910: Sharecropping, Wage, Labor, and Coresidence.  Rutgers University Press, 1984 On order 

Kertzer, David and Richard Saller, eds.  The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present.  Yale University Press, 1991 HQ629.F36 

_____.. "Gender Ideology and Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth Century Italy," The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 12: 1 (Summer 1991), 1. 

_____ and Dennis P. Hogan. "Reflections on the European Marriage Pattern:  Sharecropping and Proletarianization in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921," Journal of Family History, 16: 1 (1991), 31. 

Livi-Bacci, M. A History of Italian Fertility during the Last Two Centuries.  Princeton University Press, 1977. 

Sabetti, Filippo.  Political Authority in a Sicilian Village.  Rutgers University Press, 1984 

Silverman, Sydel.  Three Bells of Civilization:  The Life of an Italian Hill Town.  Columbia University Press, 1975 

Kenny, M.  and Kertzer, D. I., eds.  Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe. Urbana, IL, 1983 

Snowden, F. M.  Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy. Apulia, 1900-1922. Cambridge University Press, 1986. 

Tilly, Louise. Politics and Class in Milan, 1881-1901.  Oxford University Press, 1992. HD8490.M52.T55 

Tilly, Louise A., Rachel G. Fuchs, David I. Kertzer, and David L. Ransel. "Child Abandonment in European History: A Symposium,"  Journal of Family History, 17:1 (1992), 1. 

Toniolo, G. An Economic History of Liberal Italy, 1850-1918.  London: Routledge, 1990. HC305.T54713 

Webster, R. A.  Industrial Imperialism in Italy, 1908-1915.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. 

Politics/Political Parties

Blackner, D., and Tarrow, Sidney, eds.  Communism in Italy and France. Princeton, 1975. JN5657.C63 C65 

Clark, Martin. Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1977. 

Furlong, Paul. Modern Italy: Representation and Reform. New York: Routledge, 1994. JN5451.F87.1994 

Kertzer, David I. Comrades and Christians: Religion and Political Struggle in Communist Italy.  Waveland Press, 1990   HX289.K47 

Kertzer, David I. Ritual, Politics and Power.  Yale, 1988 GN492.3.K47.1988 

Lange, Peter, and Maurizio Vannicelli. The Communist Parties of Italy, France and Spain: Postwar Change and Continuity.  Allen and Unwin, 1981  JN94.A979.C645 

La Palombara, Joseph.  Democracy, Italian Style. Yale University Press, 1987. JN5451.236 1987 

Macciocchi, Maria.  Letters from inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser.  London: 1973 

Fascism and World War II [1918-1945] 

Cannistraro, Philip.  Il Duce's Other Woman.  Morrow, 1992  HC PQ 4841.A78.Z84.1993 

Cardoza, A.L. Agrarian Elites and Italian Fascism: the Province of Bologna, 1901-1926. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. DG975.B64.C37 

Cassels, A. Mussolini's Early Diplomacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. DG498.C34 

Deakin, F.W. The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. DG572.D27 

De Blasio, Wilhelm. The Other Italy: Italian Resistance in World War II. Norton, 1988. D802. I8.W55.1988 

De Felice, R. Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1976. 

De Felice, R. Interpretations of Fascism. Tr. B.H.Everett. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. DS135.I8.F4 

De Grand, Alexander J. In Stalin's Shadow: Angelo Tasca and the Crisis of the Left in Italy and France, 1910-1945. 

De Grand, Alexander J.  Italian Fascism.  U of Neb Press, 1989. DG571.D37.1989 

De Grazia, Victoria.  The Culture of Consent.  Cambridge University Press.  1981.  GV85.D43 

De Grazia, Victoria.  How Fascism Ruled Women.  University of California Press, 1992. HQ1638.D4. 

Ellwood, David W. Italy, 1943-45. Holmes & Meier, 1985. D763.I8.E38.1985 

Forgacs, David, ed.  Rethinking Italian Fascism: Capitalism, Populism, and Culture.  London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1986. 

Gregor, A. J. Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism.  University of California Press, 1979. 

Katz, Robert. Black Sabbath.  Toronto: Macmillan, 1969. DS135.185.R6K 

Kelikian, Alice.  Town and Country under Fascism: The Transformation of Brescia, 1915-1926.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. DG975.B85.K44 

Knox, M. Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Italy's Last War.  Cambridge University Press, 1982. 

Koon, Tracy. Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy.  UNC Press, 1985   DG571.K66.1985 

Levi, Carlo.  Christ Stopped at Eboli. 1947  DG975.L78.L43 

Lyttelton, Adrian. The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919-1929.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. 

Mack Smith, Denis.  Mussolini, A Biography. 1982.  DG575.M9.M223 

Michaelis, Meir.  Mussolini and the Jews. Oxford, 1978. DS135.I8.M4 

Origo, Iris.  War in the Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944. Godine, 1947 On order 

Passerini, Luisa.  Fascism in Modern Memory.  Cambridge University Press, 1987. DG975.T97 P3713 1987 

Pollard, J. F.  The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-1932: A Study in Conflict.  Cambridge Univesity Press, 1985. 

Sarti, Roland, ed.  The Ax Within:  Italian Fascism in Action. New York: Franklin Watts. 1974  DG571.S276 

______. Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy 1919-1940.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. 

Segre, Claudio G. Fourth Shore: the Italian Colonization of Libya.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 

______.  Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1987. HCLib 

Snowden, F. M.  The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-1922.  Cambridge University Press, 1989. 

Steinberg, Jonathon.   All or Nothing: the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943.  London: Routledge, 1990. D804.3.S75.1990 

Stille, Alexander.  Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism.  Summit, 1991   DS135.I9.A17.1991 

Tannenbaum, Edward R. The Fascist Experience. Basic Books, 1972. DG571.T16 

Wilhelm, Maria.  The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War Two.  Norton, 1988  D802.I8.W55 

Wiskemann, Elizabeth.  Fascism in Italy. St. Martin's, 1969  DG571.W81 

Zuccotti, Susan.  The Italians and the Holocaust.  London: 1987   DS135.I8.Z83.1987 

Postwar Italy [1945-present] 

Allum, P. A.  Italy: Republic without Government?  New York: Norton, 1973. JN5451.A64 

Allum, P. A. Politics and Society in Postwar Naples.  London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 

Amyot, G.,  The Italian Communist Party: the Crisis of the Popular Front Strategy.  London: Croom Helm, 1981. On order 

Baranski, Z. G., and Lumley, R., eds.  Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy: Essays on Mass and Popular Culture.  Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990. 

Barnes, S.H. Representation in Italy: Institutionalized and Electoral Choice.  Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 

Blackmer, D.L.M. and Tarrow, S., eds.  Communism in Italy and France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. JN5657.C63.C65 

Bondanella, P. Italian Cinema. From Neorealism to the Present. New York: Ungar, 1990. FN1993.5.I88.B58 

Ceasar, M. and P. Hainsworth, eds. Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy: a Collection of Essays.  Leamington Spa: Berg, 1984. PQ4088.W75.1984 

Certoma, G.L. The Italian Legal System. London:Butterworths 1985 

Chandler, B.J. King of the Mountain: the Life and Death of Giuliano the Bandit.  Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press 1988. 

De Grand, Alexander J. The Italian Left in the Twentieth Century: A History of the Socialist and Communist Parties. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1989. JN5657.S6.D4.1989 

Di Palma, G. Surviving without Governing: the Italian Parties in Parliament.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. JN5651.D48 

Di Scala, Spencer. Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi. New York: Oxford University Press 1988. 

Farneti, P. The Italian Party Sytem (1945-1980). London: Pinter 1985. 

Forgacs, David. Italian Culture in the Industrial Era, 1880-1980. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1990. 

Harper, John Lamberton. America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986. HC305.H36.1986 

Hellman, Stephen. Italian Communism in Transition: the Rise and Fall of the Historic Compromise in Turin 1975-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. HX295.T87.H44 

Hine, D. Governing Italy: The Politics of Bargained Pluralism.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. JN5451.H56.1993 

Kogan, N.  A Political History of Postwar Italy: The Postwar Years.  New York: Praeger, 1983. DG577.K78 

Lange, Peter and Sidney Tarrow, eds.  Italy in Transition. Conflict and Consensus. London: Cass, 1980. JN5451.I88.1988 

Lapalombara, Joseph.  Democracy: Italian Style.  New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1987. JN5451.L35.1987 

Lapalombara, Joseph.  Interest Groups in Italian Politics.  Princeton University Press, 1964  JN5477.P7.L13 

Leonardi, R. and Douglas A. Wertman.  Italian Christian Democracy: the Politics of Dominance. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1989. 

Lumley, R. States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy 1968-1978. London: Verso, 1990. 

Miller, J. E.  The United States and Italy: the Politics of Diplomacy and Stabilization. Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 

Moss, D.  The Politics of Left-Wing Violence in Italy, 1969-85.  Basingstoke: Macmillon 1989. 

Onida, V. and G. Viesti,eds.  The Italian Multinationals. London: Croom Helm, 1988. 

Pitkin, D.S. The House that Giacomo Built: History of an Italian Family, 1898-1978. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 

Pridham, G. Political Parties and Coalition Behavior in Italy.  London: Routledge, 1988. 

Ruscoe, J. The Italian Communist Party 1976-81: On the Threshold of Government. London: Macmillan, 1982. 

Sassoon, Don. The Strategy of the Italian Communist Party: from the Resistance to the Historic Compromise. London: Pinter, 1981. 

Sassoon, Don.  Contemporary Italy. Politics, Economy and Society since 1945.  London: Longman, 1986. DG577.5.S28. 1986 

Serfaty, Simon and Lawrence Gray, eds.  The Italian Communist Party.  Greenwood Press, 1980.  JN5657.C63.I68 

Spotts, Frederick and Wieser, Theodore.  Italy: A Difficult Democracy. A Survey of Italian Politics.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. JN5451.S64.1986 

Tarrow, Sidney. Peasant Communism in Southern Italy. New Haven, London: Yale University Press 1967. 

Tarrow, Sidney. Between Center and Periphery: Grassroots Politicians in Italy and France. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1977. 

Tarrow, Sidney. Democracy, Disorder and Protest Politics in Italy, 1965-1975.  Oxford University Press, 1989. JN5796.S55.S22 

Urban, J. B. Moscow and the Italian Communist Party. From Togliatti to Berlinguer. London: Tauris 1986. 

Woolf, Stuart J., ed.  The Rebirth of Italy, 1943-1950.  London: Longmans/Humanities Press, 1972. On order 

Postwar Economic History

Armstrong, P., and Harrison, J.  Capitalism Since World War II.  London: 1984. 

Barkan, Joanne.  Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers' Movement Since 1945. 1984  HD6709.B355.1984 

Harper, J. L.  America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948.  Cambridge University Press, 1986. HC305.H36 

Lange, Peter, George Ross and Maurizio Vannicelli.  Unions, Change, and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980.  Allen and Unwin, 1982. HD6684.L185.1982 

Maier, Charles.  Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy after World War I.  Princeton, 1975  D727.M21.1975 

Padoa-Schioppa, Fiorella.  Italy: The Sheltered Economy.  Oxford U Press, 1994. HC305.P22313.1993 

Podbielski, G. Italy: Development and Crisis in the Post-War Economy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 

The Mafia

Arlacchi, Pino. Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Tr. M. Ryle.  Verso, 1986. HV6453.I83.M32313.1986 

Arlacchi, Pino, et al., Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates. Cambridge, 1983.  HC307.C3 A713 

Blok, A.  The Mafia of a Sicilian Village.  New York, 1975 HV6453.I83 S6123 

Chubb, Judith.  Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy.  Harvard University Press. 1982  DG829.C49 

_____. The Mafia and Politics.  Cornell. 1989  HV6453.I83.C5 

Pantaleone, Michele. The Mafia and Politics.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. HV6453.I82.S6543 

Walston, J. The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria.  London: 1988  JN5519.W36 

Women in Italy Since 1800

Adler Hellman, J.  Journeys Among Women. Feminism in Five Italian Cities.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. 

Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola.  Liberazione della donna:  Feminism in Italy.  Wesleyan University Press, 1986 HQ1642.B56.1986 

Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola.  Black Madonnas.  BT670.B55.B57.1993. 

Bono, Paola and Sandra Kemp, eds. Italian Feminist Writers: A Reader.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991  HQ1642.I76 

Bruno, Guiliana and Maria Nadotti.  Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy.  NY: Routledge, 1988.  PN1995.9.W6.O35.1988 

Cornelisen, Ann.  Women of the Shadows.  Vintage, 1977 
 HQ1644.S6.C6.1977 

De Grazia, Victoria.  How Fascism Ruled Women. University of California Press. 1992. HQ1638.D4. 

Gibson, Mary.  Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915.  Rutgers University Press, 1986.  HQ203.G53.1986 

Hellman, Judith.  Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities.  Oxford University Press, 1987 HQ1236.5.I8H45.1987 

Kertzer, David.  Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. 
 Beacon, 1993. 

Kroha, Lucienne.  The Woman Writer in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy. Edwin Mellen, 1992 

La Vigna, Claire, "The Marxist Ambivalence Toward Women," in Marilyn Boxer and Jean Quataert, eds.  Socialist Women: Socialist Feminism in the Nine-teenth and Twentieth Century. 1978. 

Livi-Bacci, M. A History of Italian Fertility during the Last Two Centuries.  Princeton University Press, 1977. 

Muir, Edward and Guido Ruggiero.  Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective. Johns Hopkins, 1990. HQ18.I8.S49.1990 

Tilly, Louise.  Politics and Class in Milan, 1881-1901.  Oxford University Press. 1992  HD 8490.M52.T55.1992. 

Slaughter, Jane. Women and the Italian Resistance. Arden Press. 1997.  D802.I8.S53.1997 

Zappi, Elda Gentili.  If Eight Hours Seem too Few: Mobilization of Women Workers in Italian Rice Fields.  SUNY Press, 1991   HD6073.R482.I89 

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