Robert A Ventresca
Biographic Data
| ID | 842531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Ventresca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ventresca |
| SIGNATURE | VENTRESCA R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
This volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older historiographical models of papal supremacy, focusing on how apos…
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
Historically, the papacy has had – and continues to have – significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes and various vectors of papal authorit…
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly titled 'The Two Swords,' it explores the papacy's navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its place and its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices. Surviving and thriving in such environment naturally had an imp…
Cambridge History of the Papacy
Cambridge History of the Papacy
Discovering and Rediscovering Human Rights History
This article surveys one historian’s experience in researching and teaching about the role of religion in the development of modern human rights in the era of the two world wars and the Holocaust. The first part focuses on the so-called Catholic human rights revolution. It examines transformations in Catholic political thought and social action as a process rather than a revolution—a gradual, incremental, and often contested dynamic that was neit…
The Vatican and Mussolini’s Italy
This essay reviews a new history by Lucia Ceci of Italo-Vatican relations during the Fascist period, and evaluates its contribution to the vast but often polemical literature on the subject of Church–state relations in modern Italy. Ceci offers a detailed, sophisticated analysis that focuses specifically on leadership and decision-making in the Fascist regime and the Vatican respectively. Her argument that the Vatican’s relations with Fascist Ita…
Soldier of Christ
Soldier of Christ
Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ moves beyond competing caricatures and considers Pius XII as Eugenio Pacelli, a flawed and gifted man. While offering insight into the Pope's response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was the Cold War and Pius XII's manner of engaging with the modern world that defined his pontificate. Laying the groundwork…
Soldier of Christ
Debating the Meaning of Fascism in Contemporary Italy
This article takes up the question posed by Claudio Pavone—‘Have the Italians truly known how to come to terms with their past?’—and argues that Italians have indeed grappled with their Fascist past, albeit in varied, contradictory, ambiguous and incomplete ways. This article demonstrates the myriad ways in which Italians—historians, politicians, intellectuals, and segments of the general public—have debated the meaning of Fascism since the fall …
From Fascism to Democracy
From Fascism to Democracy expands on the common understanding of what is 'political' to examine how such factors as popular piety, gender, and historical memory became intertwined with the politics of Italy's fledgling democracy
The Virgin and the Bear
Journal Article The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society and the Cold War in Italy Get access Robert A. Ventresca Robert A. Ventresca Department of History, King's College-University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, Ontario, N6A2M3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Winter 2003, Pages 439–456, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0199 Publish…
Nation of Immigrants
Cowering Women, Combative Men
In August 1964, the southern Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty…
Italian Radicals in Canada
FOLLOWING THE FASCIST seizure of power in Italy in October 1922, thousands of Italians hostile to the new regime left their country of origin to escape political persecution and to wage their anti-Fascist campaigns from the relative safety of democracies in Western Europe and the Americas. Anarchists, socialists, and communists left Italy with the intention of continuing in foreign countries their struggle against the state, capitalism, and, of c…
Ruth A. Frager — Sweatshop Strife
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Cowering Women, Combative Men
In August 1964, the southern Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty…
Italian Radicals in Canada
FOLLOWING THE FASCIST seizure of power in Italy in October 1922, thousands of Italians hostile to the new regime left their country of origin to escape political persecution and to wage their anti-Fascist campaigns from the relative safety of democracies in Western Europe and the Americas. Anarchists, socialists, and communists left Italy with the intention of continuing in foreign countries their struggle against the state, capitalism, and, of c…
The Vatican and Mussolini’s Italy
This essay reviews a new history by Lucia Ceci of Italo-Vatican relations during the Fascist period, and evaluates its contribution to the vast but often polemical literature on the subject of Church–state relations in modern Italy. Ceci offers a detailed, sophisticated analysis that focuses specifically on leadership and decision-making in the Fascist regime and the Vatican respectively. Her argument that the Vatican’s relations with Fascist Ita…
The Virgin and the Bear
Journal Article The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society and the Cold War in Italy Get access Robert A. Ventresca Robert A. Ventresca Department of History, King's College-University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, Ontario, N6A2M3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Winter 2003, Pages 439–456, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0199 Publish…
Ruth A. Frager — Sweatshop Strife
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Italian Radicals in Canada
FOLLOWING THE FASCIST seizure of power in Italy in October 1922, thousands of Italians hostile to the new regime left their country of origin to escape political persecution and to wage their anti-Fascist campaigns from the relative safety of democracies in Western Europe and the Americas. Anarchists, socialists, and communists left Italy with the intention of continuing in foreign countries their struggle against the state, capitalism, and, of c…
Cowering Women, Combative Men
In August 1964, the southern Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty…
Nation of Immigrants
From Fascism to Democracy
From Fascism to Democracy expands on the common understanding of what is 'political' to examine how such factors as popular piety, gender, and historical memory became intertwined with the politics of Italy's fledgling democracy
The Virgin and the Bear
Journal Article The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society and the Cold War in Italy Get access Robert A. Ventresca Robert A. Ventresca Department of History, King's College-University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, Ontario, N6A2M3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Winter 2003, Pages 439–456, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0199 Publish…
Debating the Meaning of Fascism in Contemporary Italy
This article takes up the question posed by Claudio Pavone—‘Have the Italians truly known how to come to terms with their past?’—and argues that Italians have indeed grappled with their Fascist past, albeit in varied, contradictory, ambiguous and incomplete ways. This article demonstrates the myriad ways in which Italians—historians, politicians, intellectuals, and segments of the general public—have debated the meaning of Fascism since the fall …
Soldier of Christ
Soldier of Christ
Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ moves beyond competing caricatures and considers Pius XII as Eugenio Pacelli, a flawed and gifted man. While offering insight into the Pope's response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was the Cold War and Pius XII's manner of engaging with the modern world that defined his pontificate. Laying the groundwork…
Soldier of Christ
The Vatican and Mussolini’s Italy
This essay reviews a new history by Lucia Ceci of Italo-Vatican relations during the Fascist period, and evaluates its contribution to the vast but often polemical literature on the subject of Church–state relations in modern Italy. Ceci offers a detailed, sophisticated analysis that focuses specifically on leadership and decision-making in the Fascist regime and the Vatican respectively. Her argument that the Vatican’s relations with Fascist Ita…
Discovering and Rediscovering Human Rights History
This article surveys one historian’s experience in researching and teaching about the role of religion in the development of modern human rights in the era of the two world wars and the Holocaust. The first part focuses on the so-called Catholic human rights revolution. It examines transformations in Catholic political thought and social action as a process rather than a revolution—a gradual, incremental, and often contested dynamic that was neit…
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
This volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older historiographical models of papal supremacy, focusing on how apos…
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
Historically, the papacy has had – and continues to have – significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes and various vectors of papal authorit…
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly titled 'The Two Swords,' it explores the papacy's navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its place and its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices. Surviving and thriving in such environment naturally had an imp…
Cambridge History of the Papacy
Cambridge History of the Papacy
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Catholicism and Religious Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)