R J B Bosworth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76296 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R J B Bosworth |
| NOMBRES | R J B |
| APELLIDO | Bosworth |
| FIRMA | BOSWORTH R J B |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7858-418X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 106 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 23 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party
Hard power e soft power na realidade e na memória da Itália de Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III on 30 October 1922. His regime soon back-dated itself by a couple of days, proclaiming the Fascist ‘March on Rome’ had brought ‘revolution’ to Italy on 28 October. On 3 January 1925 Mussolini spoke decisively to the Chamber of Deputies refusing to apologise for his followers’ violence.[1] It had been especially manifested in the kidnapping and murder of the moderat…
Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? And what should we learn from the experiences of a martyred liberal democrat father and his communist son? Through the prism of a single, exceptional family, the Amendolas, R.J.B. Bosworth reveals the heart of twentieth-century Italian politics. Giovanni and Giorgio Amendola, father and son, were both highly capable and dedicated Anti-Fascists. Each failed to m…
Finding Italy
In this piece, Richard Bosworth wryly reviews his academic life. Set into a hereditary academic family, with ties to Adelaide, Sydney, Perth and Cambridge, Bosworth explains his many enriching sojourns in Rome libraries and archives and his eventual passage to the comforts of Jesus College, Oxford. When asked by bureaucrats – these days, in his physical decline, likely to be from the NHS – what is his ethnicity, Bosworth always refuses to answer …
Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism
Victoria de Grazia, The Perfect Fascist
Ciano
Through the last decade, Eugenio Di Rienzo has been the editor of the time-honoured Italian journal, Nuova Rivista Storica. It has specialised in ‘realistic’ explorations of foreign policy of the kind common in anglophone historiography before the 1970s but less usual now. With a colleague, Emilio Gin, he published in 2013 Le potenze dell’Asse e l’Unione Sovietica 1939–1945, a study of relations between the Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Imperial Jap…
Claretta
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple’s bodies were then hanged upside d…
Isabelle Richet, Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy
Eileen Ryan, Religion as Resistance
I Documenti diplomatici italiani. Undicesima serie
The publication of selections from Italian state papers about foreign policy rolls on, with this volume covering the eleven months when Alcide De Gasperi was Christian Democrat Presidente del Consiglio and head of his seventh government; quaintly, the official Italian record tells us, it lasted ‘721 days that is, one year, eleven months and twenty days’. Volume VI of the eleventh series of Documenti diplomatici italiani [DDI] covers the first hal…
Whispering City
In Civilization and Its Discontents , Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental entity," in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment buildings in layers of brick, mortar, and memory. "The observer would need merely to shift the focus of his eyes, perhaps, or change his position, in order to call up a view of either the one or the other." In this one-of-a-kind bo…
Late nineteenth century Italy in Africa
Late nineteenth century Italy in Africa: the Livraghi affair and the waning of civilising aspirations." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 22(5), pp. 653–654
Rethinking Antifascism
Paul Garfinkel, Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy
I Documenti diplomatici italiani, terza serie
Non solo canzonette
Leonardo Campus is well qualified to write this lively, if brief and at times wandering, account of the first decade or so of the Sanremo Music Festival, post-Second World War Italy’s most durable and resonant popular music show. Campus holds a research position in history at Rome University, bolstered by high qualifications as a pianist, while also doing journalistic work for RAI, Italy’s national broadcaster. As a friendly preface to the book s…
Nuto Revelli, Mussolini’s Death March
Francesco Saverio (Father), Marcello Cesare Augusto (Son)
The choice by different regimes as to what matters in the past and what does not is always a telling factor in their character. Mussolini's dictatorship in Italy made major play with romanità through its representation of the dictator as a new Caesar and its claim to be ‘restoring’ the Roman empire. The centro storico of Rome is still full of such Fascist messaging. The regime was also the first to call itself totalitarian and, since the 1980s, a…
Second World War, The
Introduction to Volume II
It is the long-lived, leftist and populist American historian Louis (‘ Studs ’) Terkel (1912 – 2008) who has provided what might be agreed as the ‘name brand’ of the global conflict fought between 1939 and 1945. In 1984 he published The Good War. The next year, it won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Terkel aimed to recover the reaction of ‘ordinary’ Americans (and only them), whether they were civilians or military, to their years of battle fr…
The Italian Army and the First World War, by John Gooch
Journal Article The Italian Army and the First World War, by John Gooch Get access The Italian Army and the First World War , by John Gooch ( Cambridge U.P. , 2014 ; pp. 386 . £55 ; pbk. £19.99 ). R.J.B. Bosworth R.J.B. Bosworth Jesus College , Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1591–1592, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev277 Publ…
David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini
I Documenti diplomatici italiani. Terza Serie
Journal Article I Documenti diplomatici italiani. Terza Serie: 1896–1907. Vol. IX: 29 marzo 1905–28 maggio 1906, ed. Francesco Lefebvre D’Ovidio and Pietro Pastorelli Get access I Documenti diplomatici italiani. Terza Serie: 1896–1907. Vol. IX: 29 marzo 1905–28 maggio 1906, ed. Francesco Lefebvre D’Ovidio and Pietro Pastorelli (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 2013; pp. lxx + 747. N.p.). R.J.B. Bosworth R.J.B. Bosworth Jesus Colleg…
Mussolini's Policemen
Over the last decades, Jonathan Dunnage has completed impressive research into the policing of Italy, notably in his case-study of Bologna between 1897 and 1925 (The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism [1997]; rev. ante, cxiv [1999], 774–5). Now he amplifies that work with later research, some of it already published, in this general study of the Fascist police, split as they were into the Carabinieri, operating mainly in the countryside, and …
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism explores the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the ‘first Fascist nation’, the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The book also examines the roots of…
The Touring Club Italiano and the Nationalization of the Italian Bourgeoisie
L'Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945-2000)
Journal Article L'Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945–2000) Get access L’Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945–2000), ed. Stuart Woolf (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007; pp. 500. Eur 25). R.J.B. Bosworth R.J.B. Bosworth University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 508, June 2009, Pages 768–770, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep118 Published: 01 June…
Everyday Mussolinism
The article uses a range of archival material to commence an investigation into how and with what assumptions Italians lived under a Mussolinian dictatorship which called itself totalitarian. It suggests that ‘revolutionary’ Fascism – what Emilio Gentile and others have seen as a new ‘political religion’ – met with some scepticism in the daily behaviour of many Italians. The family, the locality, the most helpful functioning of patron–client netw…
VI. Britain and Italy's Acquisition of the Dodecanese, 1912–1915
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Diplomacy confirms the fact. As an illustration no incident is better than the Italian retention of the Southern Sporades or Dodecanese group of Aegean Islands in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Italy, last and weakest of the Great Powers, was able to defy the expressed wishes of Britain, the dominant naval power on whose patronage Italy traditionally relied. Defiance of Britain was not a…
War, Totalitarianism and ‘Deep Belief’ in Fascist Italy, 1935-43
In this article material is used from the Italian archives about so-called ‘defeatists’ to illuminate ‘deep beliefs’ among the Italian populace about war and empire. To a perhaps surprising degree, these beliefs embrace views that are widely separate from the fascist norm and were often hostile to it. Thus, at least some Italians resisted propaganda about the glory of Ethiopian conquest in 1935-6 and the virtue of the Italian presence in the Span…
Tourist Planning in Fascist Italy and the Limits of a Totalitarian Culture
The historiography of Italian fascism has reached a curious pass. Once, especially in the English-language world, all was dominated by the study of politics, diplomacy and war. Moreover, these studies were automatically ‘intentionalist’ in their interpretation. For Denis Mack Smith as, ironically, for Renzo De Felice, it did not seem possible to think of the period from 1922 to 1945 except as ‘Mussolini's Italy’; any analysis of fascist Italy cou…
A Country Split in Two? Contemporary Italy and Its Usable and Unusable Pasts
In this article, Richard Bosworth examines the state of the recent Italian past in the light of the April 2006 elections, so narrowly contested between coalitions of Left and Right. In doing so, he utilises Tony Judt's recent commentary about the place of history in general, and the history of the Second World War in particular, arguing that Italy may helpfully be compared in its historiographical tensions with the ex‐communist countries of Easte…
The Italian Novecento and Its Historians
The politics of Italian national identity . Edited by Gino Bedani and Bruce Haddock. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. Pp. vii+296. ISBN 0-7083-1622-0. £40.00. Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922–1945 . By Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001. Pp. x+317. ISBN 0-520-22363-2. £28.50. Le spie del regime . By Mauro Canali. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004. Pp. 863. ISBN 88-15-09801-1. €70.00. I campi del Duce: l'internamento ci…
Per necessità famigliare
Recent literature has made great play of an alleged Fascist cultural revolution, extending its influence deep into the subjectivities of the citizens of Fascist Italy. In his article, Bosworth doubts the completeness of this intrusion of an alleged totalitarianism. Reviewing material from Mussolini’s personal office, Bosworth traces the way in which the Fascist leadership and, most notably, Mussolini himself, remained impervious to Fascist ideali…
Venice Between Fascism and International Tourism, 1911–45
This article uses Venice as a case study of the ‘cultural revolution’ urged by some historians as a feature of the totalitarianizing ambition of the Fascist regime. But Bosworth finds a Venice which, though plainly affected by Fascism, nonetheless preserved much that was its own and much that expressed a continuity with the liberal era before 1922 and the liberal democratic one after 1945. He shows that many of the rhythms of Venetian life moved …
Explaining "Auschwitz" after the End of History
Everywhere the 1990s have been characterized by an odd mixture of ideological triumphalism-Fukuyama's "end of history" being only the crassest example-and of ideological uncertainty-can there be, should there be, a "third way"? For all its pretensions to universality, the "New World Order" has never lost a fragility in appearance. Students of historiography can scarcely be surprised to learn that an uneasiness over the present and future has in t…
Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900 and the Myth of Fascism
The English, The Historians and the Età Giolittiana
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VI. Britain and Italy's Acquisition of the Dodecanese, 1912–1915
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Diplomacy confirms the fact. As an illustration no incident is better than the Italian retention of the Southern Sporades or Dodecanese group of Aegean Islands in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Italy, last and weakest of the Great Powers, was able to defy the expressed wishes of Britain, the dominant naval power on whose patronage Italy traditionally relied. Defiance of Britain was not a…
The Albanian Forests of Signor Giacomo Vismara
In Second Class, there was only my valet and two Italians on their way to Valona to buy from a Greek a wood, which, as far as they knew, did not belong to him. A frequent matter in the East So sardonically wrote in his diary a second-rank Italian politician, the only passenger in first class, voyaging in 1902 across the Adriatic to Albania. The politician was Antonino di San Giuliano. His diary had a purpose, as it was destined to be published in…
The Historiography of Modern Italy
Italy the Least of the Great Powers
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 accorded the adjectives 'eternal' or 'imperial', the monumentissimo (as sardonic socialists labelled it) is the most public, most theatrical and most excessive architectural celebration of post-Risorgimento Italian patriotism, nationalism and perhaps imperialism. This book asks why the Victor Emmanue…
A Lost History? The Study of European Migration to Australia
Italy and the Approach of the First World War
The Making of the 20th CenturyThis series of specially commissioned titles focuses attention on significant and often controversial events and themes of world history in the present century.Each book provides sufficient narrative and explanation for the newcomer to the subject while offering, for more advanced study, detailed source-references and bibliographies, together with interpretation and reassessment in the light of recent scholarship.In …
Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860
Australia and Assisted Immigration from Britain, 1945–1954
Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900 and the Myth of Fascism
Non bruciare i ponti con Roma
Denis Mack Smith and the Third Italy
DENIS MACK SMITH. Italy and Its Monarchy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 402
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access RICHARD BOSWORTH RICHARD BOSWORTH University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Page 755, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.755 Published: 01 July 1991
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access RICHARD BOSWORTH RICHARD BOSWORTH University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 1053-b–1055, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.1053-b Published: 01 October 1992
Prussian-German militarism 1914-18 in Australian perspective
Prussian-German militarism 1914–18 in Australian perspective: the thought of George Arnold Wood Get access Richard Bosworth Richard Bosworth University of Western AustraliaBy John A. Moses. Bern/Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang. 1991. 215pp. DM19. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 116–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/10.1.116 Published: 01 January 1992
An interrupted past
An interrupted past: German-speaking refugee historians in the United States afrer 1933 Get access Richard Bosworth Richard Bosworth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 11, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 259–260, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/11.2.259 Published: 01 April 1993
Australia's Italians
Introduction Early Italian migration and the construction of European Australia 1788--1939 Italians in Australia during World War II Italian migration and settlement since 1945 Italians help build Australia Cappuccino capitalism: Italian immigrants and Australian business Place and community: the construction of an Italo--Australian space Community leaders in rural Australia and the construction of the Godfather Community networks and institution…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access RICHARD BOSWORTH RICHARD BOSWORTH University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 433, September 1994, Page 1030, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.433.1030 Published: 01 September 1994
La Ferita della Modernità
La Ferita della Modernità: Intellettuali, totalitarismo e immagine del nemico." History of European Ideas, 18(5), pp. 774–775
Italian anarchism, 1864–1892
(1994). Italian anarchism, 1864–1892. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 1020-1022
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima
The Wages of Guilt
Between the early 1930s and 1945, a European country and an East Asian country embarked on the most destructive colonial adventure the world has ever seen, and committed atrocities which the victims and their children have never been able to forget. This book explores the ways in which the Germans and the Japanese have come to terms with the past, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt - and of denying it. The author encounte…
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Representing the Holocaust
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