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Reading Related to Modern Italy/Fascism

Recommended by Dr. Kate Ferris, Lecturer in History, University of Durham

 

John Foot 'Modern Italy' (Macmillan, 2003)

Lucy Riall: either 'Risorgimento. The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State' (London, Palgrave, 2008)

Lucy Riall: 'Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero' (New Haven CT & London, Yale University Press, 2007)

RJB Bosworth 'Mussolini‚s Italy: Life under the Dictatorship 1915-1945' (Allen Lane, 2005)

Emilio Gentile 'The Sacralisation of Politics in Fascist Italy' (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1996)

Paul Ginsborg 'A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988' (Penguin, 1990)