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Mussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can't properly understand him or his regime ...
Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Itali...
A History
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 an...
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1860-1960
Richard Bosworth's overview of Italy's role in European and world politics from 1860 to 1960 is lively and iconclastic. Based on a combination of prim...
From Dictatorship to Populism
An incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitler’s rise—and thereby reinforced his role as a model for later authorit...
Mussolini's Last Lover
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recent...
Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism
A study of the "myth of Fascism," this book offers a detailed critique of historical accounts of Mussolini and his regime, including writings from 191...
Explores the impact of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism on modern Italy, through the prism of a single family....
Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War
In the heart of Rome beside the Capitol, confronting the Piazza Venezia, stands the Victor Emmanuel monument. In Rome, which until 1945 was so often a...
History Writing and the Second World War : 1945-1990
History Writing and the Second World War
The Post-war Migrant Experience
Modern Rome and Its Histories
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental entity," in whic...