J Foot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Foot |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Foot |
| SIGNATURE | FOOT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2401-2511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gabriella Romano. Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims
Percy Allum and Italy – First Encounters
Paul Ginsborg (1945-2022)
Paul Ginsborg was the most influential British historian of Italy of his generation. He was well known not only to fellow historians but to general readers of history. Greatly admired by his many undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and Italy, he influenced numerous others who learned about the history of modern and contemporary Italy from his books. For several generations of researchers, he was a model historian: an immensely knowl…
The Years of Lead. Memory, history, journalism, victims
‘ Soprattutto un attore di quella drammatica fase della vita italiana è stato tuttavia privilegiato in modo schiacciante come oggetto di studio: il “soggetto terrorista”, ovvero i terroristi e le organizzazioni terroristiche. ’ (‘One kind of actor in that dramatic period of Italian life has been privileged above all others, in an overwhelming way by researchers and others: the terrorists themselves and their organisations.’ (Brizzi 2021, 11)
The March on Rome revisited. Silences, historians and the power of the counter-factual
This historiographical article will argue that the March on Rome (October–November 1922) was the end point of a serious and at that point unique insurrectionary project, which followed three intense years of Fascist violence (where the state had rarely if ever taken on the Fascists, and had often colluded passively or actively with them). It was accompanied by violence and constant threats of further violence, in Rome and across Italy. It was in …
A micro-history of Fascist violence. Squadristi, victims and perpetrators
Fascist violence, particularly with regards to Italy and the rise of the movement, has generally been played down by historians. Moreover, when it has been discussed, the focus has been on the perpetrators rather than the victims. This article looks to recentre the experiences of the victims of fascist violence through the use of methodologies drawn from everyday life approaches and micro-history. Using one case of ‘ordinary’ fascist violence in …
Basaglia's International Legacy
Franco Basaglia (1924-1980) was an Italian psychiatrist and activist who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals and pioneered new ideas about mental health and its treatment. Basaglia was also one of the principal proponents of Italy's 'Law 180', which effectively closed down large mental hospitals in Italy. His ideas and his disciples have had a decisive influence in the move away from institutional care in many parts of the world, pa…
Round Table. The ‘British School’ and Italian Historiography
Italian summary I contributi sopra intendono riflettere sulla cosiddetta ‘scuola britannica’ di storici e ricercatori specializzati nello studio dell’Italia moderna e contemporanea. Facendo seguito ad una tavola rotonda tenutasi durante il Convegno ASMI 2016, abbiamo chiesto a coloro che vi hanno partecipato di pubblicare i propri interventi nella forma di brevi saggi. In essi viene discussa l’influenza della storiografia britannica sullo studio …
How Italian Football Creates Italians
Italy’s victory in the 1982 World Cup is usually narrated through the figure of Sandro Pertini, the President of Italy who attended the final as a spectator. It is also often described as an ‘anti-fascist’ and ‘democratic’ World Cup. This paper looks at the ways in which that victory intersected with forms of national identification, and unpacks the forms in which the stories coming out of the tournament provided a perfect framework for such iden…
Meridiana Rivista di Storia e Scienze Sociali, 75
This collection of articles, when seen as a whole, is an original take on a subject which has gained renewed interest in Italy in recent times. Italy has always been a nation where population movements have played a key part in a whole series of sectors—the economy, the family, politics, geography and culture. Huge internal migrations in the 1950s and 1960s led to epochal changes in the countryside and the cities, and large-scale research project…
Franco Basaglia and the radical psychiatry movement in Italy, 1961–78
This article provides a short introduction to the life and work of Italian radical psychiatrist and mental health reformer Franco Basaglia. A leading figure in the democratic psychiatry movement, Basaglia is little known and often misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This article will seek to address this by highlighting Basaglia's significant role in the struggle for both deinstitutionalisation and the human rights of those incarcerated …
Television documentary, history and memory. An analysis of Sergio Zavoli's The Gardens of Abel
This article examines a celebrated documentary made for Italian state TV in 1968 and transmitted in 1969 to an audience of millions. The programme - The Gardens of Abel - looked at changes introduced by the radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in an asylum in the north-east of Italy (Gorizia). The article examines the content of this programme for the first time, questions some of the claims that have been made for it, and outlines the sources us…
Modern Italy 2010–2015
This issue marks the end of our five year term of office as joint editors of Modern Italy . We are pleased to say that our excellent working relationship has remained undamaged by the experience, and that we have found the job to be continually interesting, stimulating and also challenging. There are many individuals that we would like to thank for all their help and kindness over the period. From our predecessors, Anna Cento Bull and Martin Bull…
Laura Wittman, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body
Tom Behan 1957-2010
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From Pure City to Mass Tourism
Gigi Meroni's photo. Corse Re Umberto, Turin, 1967–2009
Italy's Divided Memory
This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. Moreover, with so little agreement over what happened, and why it happened, it has been extremely difficult to create any consensus around memory. These divisions have been seen at all levels, but take on particular importance when linked to the great t…
Micro-history of a house
The micro-history of one apartment block in the inner-suburb of Bovisa, Milan over a period of 100 or so years is examined using oral history interviews to trace the development of the block and its residents in relation to that of the city of Milan. The piece is bounded by theoretical reflections on the role of micro-history, oral history and other methodologies as tools for understanding the home and urban history, and concludes that the surviv…
Storia di Torino. 6. La citta nel Risorgimento (1798-1864)
Journal Article Storia di Torino. 6. La città nel Risorgimento (1798–1864) Get access John Foot John Foot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 481, April 2004, Pages 428–431, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.481.428 Published: 01 April 2004
Storia di Torino. 8. Dalla Grande Guerra alla liberazione (1915-45)
1University College London Storia di Torino. 8. Dalla Grande Guerra alla liberazione (1915–45) Nicola Tranfaglia Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 1998 xlvi + 871 Eur 67.14
Storia di Torino. 7. Da Capitale politica a capitale industriale (1864-1915)
1University College London Storia di Torino. 7. Da Capitale politica a capitale industriale (1864–1915) Umberto Levra Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 2001 clxi + 1119 Eur 77.47
Editors
Editors: PETER BORSAY, BARRY M. DOYLE and VICTORIA WOLCOTT Dept of History, University College of Wales Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7ED School of Arts and Media, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA Dept of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0070 R. Morelli, E. Sonnino and C. M. Travaglini (eds.), I territori di Roma. Storie, popolazioni, geografie. Rome: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tr…
Storia di Torino. 9. Gli anni della Repubblica
1University College London Storia di Torino. 9. Gli anni della Repubblica Nicola Tranfaglia Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 1999 xvii + 909 Eur 72.30
Inside the Magic Rectangle
Ada Ferrari and Gaia Giusto (eds.), Milano città della radio televisione (Milan: Francoangeli, 2000) 139pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-1721-6. Chiara Giaccardi, Anna Manzato and Giorgio Simonelli, Il paese catodico. Televisione e identità nazionale in Gran Bretagna, Italia e Svizzera Italiana (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1998) 135pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-0734-2. Ralph Negrine, Television and the Press since 1945 Documents in Contemporary History, …
The urban periphery, myth and reality
Much contemporary debate on the city concentrates on what is known in Italy as 'la periferia'-the urban fringe, the suburbs, the outer city. In fact, it is almost impossible to study urban history without a deep understanding of the periphery. The periphery is where the vast majority of Europe's people now live. Yet, this understanding is hampered by a widespread confusion about what the periphery is, and the myriad ways in which these urban form…
Franco Basaglia and the radical psychiatry movement in Italy, 1961–78
This article provides a short introduction to the life and work of Italian radical psychiatrist and mental health reformer Franco Basaglia. A leading figure in the democratic psychiatry movement, Basaglia is little known and often misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This article will seek to address this by highlighting Basaglia's significant role in the struggle for both deinstitutionalisation and the human rights of those incarcerated …
Micro-history of a house
The micro-history of one apartment block in the inner-suburb of Bovisa, Milan over a period of 100 or so years is examined using oral history interviews to trace the development of the block and its residents in relation to that of the city of Milan. The piece is bounded by theoretical reflections on the role of micro-history, oral history and other methodologies as tools for understanding the home and urban history, and concludes that the surviv…
White Bolsheviks’? The Catholic Left and the Socialists in Italy – 1919–1920
During Italy's ‘two red years’ (1919–20), left-wing catholics challenged the authority of the church and the landowners in large areas of northern Italy. Calling themselves the estremisti (the extremists), left catholic unions organized peasants and workers in land and farm occupations and encouraged a series of radical strikes. Left catholic leaders became national figures, in particular Guido Miglioli at Cremona and Romano Cocchi at Bergamo. Th…
Inside the Magic Rectangle
Ada Ferrari and Gaia Giusto (eds.), Milano città della radio televisione (Milan: Francoangeli, 2000) 139pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-1721-6. Chiara Giaccardi, Anna Manzato and Giorgio Simonelli, Il paese catodico. Televisione e identità nazionale in Gran Bretagna, Italia e Svizzera Italiana (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1998) 135pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-0734-2. Ralph Negrine, Television and the Press since 1945 Documents in Contemporary History, …
Television and the City
The early years of state television in Italy, which began transmission in 1954, have usually been viewed as crucial to the spread of mass culture through Italian society. In addition, these developments have essentially been seen in negative terms by historians and sociologists. This article explores these early years in detail for one, key, urban setting: Milan. Through an examination of the myriad and often hidden effects of television, the res…
Mass cultures, popular cultures and the working class in Milan, 1950–70∗
Socialist—Catholic alliances and gender. Work, war and the family in Milan and Lombardy, 1914–21
(1996). Socialist—Catholic alliances and gender. Work, war and the family in Milan and Lombardy, 1914–21. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 37-53
The Family and the ‘Economic Miracle’
Traditional histories of the Italian ‘Economic Miracle’ have concentrated on two phenomena: the factory and migration. The family has occupied a position of secondary importance, being treated as of lesser interest than ‘other’ arenas of everyday life, in particular the workplace. Those who have eulogised the miracle have underlined the massive effort and sacrifice of millions of workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Those who oppose the ‘id…
The March on Rome revisited. Silences, historians and the power of the counter-factual
This historiographical article will argue that the March on Rome (October–November 1922) was the end point of a serious and at that point unique insurrectionary project, which followed three intense years of Fascist violence (where the state had rarely if ever taken on the Fascists, and had often colluded passively or actively with them). It was accompanied by violence and constant threats of further violence, in Rome and across Italy. It was in …
A micro-history of Fascist violence. Squadristi, victims and perpetrators
Fascist violence, particularly with regards to Italy and the rise of the movement, has generally been played down by historians. Moreover, when it has been discussed, the focus has been on the perpetrators rather than the victims. This article looks to recentre the experiences of the victims of fascist violence through the use of methodologies drawn from everyday life approaches and micro-history. Using one case of ‘ordinary’ fascist violence in …
Round Table. The ‘British School’ and Italian Historiography
Italian summary I contributi sopra intendono riflettere sulla cosiddetta ‘scuola britannica’ di storici e ricercatori specializzati nello studio dell’Italia moderna e contemporanea. Facendo seguito ad una tavola rotonda tenutasi durante il Convegno ASMI 2016, abbiamo chiesto a coloro che vi hanno partecipato di pubblicare i propri interventi nella forma di brevi saggi. In essi viene discussa l’influenza della storiografia britannica sullo studio …
How Italian Football Creates Italians
Italy’s victory in the 1982 World Cup is usually narrated through the figure of Sandro Pertini, the President of Italy who attended the final as a spectator. It is also often described as an ‘anti-fascist’ and ‘democratic’ World Cup. This paper looks at the ways in which that victory intersected with forms of national identification, and unpacks the forms in which the stories coming out of the tournament provided a perfect framework for such iden…
Television documentary, history and memory. An analysis of Sergio Zavoli's The Gardens of Abel
This article examines a celebrated documentary made for Italian state TV in 1968 and transmitted in 1969 to an audience of millions. The programme - The Gardens of Abel - looked at changes introduced by the radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in an asylum in the north-east of Italy (Gorizia). The article examines the content of this programme for the first time, questions some of the claims that have been made for it, and outlines the sources us…
Via Rasella, 1944
L'ordine è già stato eseguito: Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la memoria. By Alessandro Portelli. Rome: Donzelli, 1999. Pp. vii+448. ISBN 88-7989-457-9. L.50.000.The battle of Valle Giulia: oral history and the art of dialogue. By A. Portelli. Wisconsin: Wisconsin: University Press, 1997. Pp. xx+354. ISBN 0-299-15374-6. $21.95. [Inc. ‘The massacre at Civitella Val di Chiana (Tuscany, June 29, 1944): Myth and politics, mourning and common sense’, in Th…
From boomtown to bribesville
This article examines the changing images of the city of Milan over a period of two decades spanning the 1980s and 1990s. The article considers theoretical debates concerning city images. Milan is then analysed through the various spatial forms which encompass this modern city – political space, populated space, geographic space, urban space and economic space. The next section assesses the changing images of the city through shifting historical …
The Family and the ‘Economic Miracle’
Traditional histories of the Italian ‘Economic Miracle’ have concentrated on two phenomena: the factory and migration. The family has occupied a position of secondary importance, being treated as of lesser interest than ‘other’ arenas of everyday life, in particular the workplace. Those who have eulogised the miracle have underlined the massive effort and sacrifice of millions of workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Those who oppose the ‘id…
The Final Conflict?' Catholics and Socialists in Milan and Lombardy during Italy's 'two red years', 1919-20
(1995). 'The Final Conflict?' Catholics and Socialists in Milan and Lombardy during Italy's 'two red years', 1919-20. The Italianist: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 266-298
Socialist—Catholic alliances and gender. Work, war and the family in Milan and Lombardy, 1914–21
(1996). Socialist—Catholic alliances and gender. Work, war and the family in Milan and Lombardy, 1914–21. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 37-53
White Bolsheviks’? The Catholic Left and the Socialists in Italy – 1919–1920
During Italy's ‘two red years’ (1919–20), left-wing catholics challenged the authority of the church and the landowners in large areas of northern Italy. Calling themselves the estremisti (the extremists), left catholic unions organized peasants and workers in land and farm occupations and encouraged a series of radical strikes. Left catholic leaders became national figures, in particular Guido Miglioli at Cremona and Romano Cocchi at Bergamo. Th…
The tale of San Vittore
The prison system under Fascism was used to house both common and political prisoners. After 25 July 1943, the prisons were opened, only to be closed once again in occupied Italy as the Nazis took over the system. San Vittore prison in Milan was theatre to a series of changes over the period from 1943 to 1946, culminating in the famous riots of April 1946. This article analyses the changes in the prison system, the mix of prisoners inside the ins…
Eliminated as a class?' Milanese socialism, consumers, and shopkeepers during the period of the cost-of-living riots, June-July 1919
Cinema and the city. Milan and Luchino Visconti's Rocco and his Brothers (1960)
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) was one of Luchino Visconti's most controversial and popular films. This tragic story of six immigrants (five brothers and their mother) who arrive in Milan from Basilicata has become an important part of the historical image held by Italians of the mass southern migration of the boom yean. This article looks at two broad areas with regard to Rocco and his Brothers, using material from the Visconti archive as well a…
Immigration and the City
The city of Milan has been host to two separate mass migrations over the last fifty years. The first involved Italians in the 1950s and 1960s, the second, non-Italians from the 1980s onwards. Until now little comparison—historical, sociological or otherwise—has been made of these two processes. The first part of this article draws up a theoretical and definitional framework for this comparison, and sets out the possible bases for such a task. The…
Shorter notice. The Long Awaited Moment. The Working Class and the Italian Communist Party… Behan
Shorter notice. The Long Awaited Moment. The Working Class and the Italian Communist Party… Behan
From boomtown to bribesville
This article examines the changing images of the city of Milan over a period of two decades spanning the 1980s and 1990s. The article considers theoretical debates concerning city images. Milan is then analysed through the various spatial forms which encompass this modern city – political space, populated space, geographic space, urban space and economic space. The next section assesses the changing images of the city through shifting historical …
Analysis of a defeat
Television and the City
The early years of state television in Italy, which began transmission in 1954, have usually been viewed as crucial to the spread of mass culture through Italian society. In addition, these developments have essentially been seen in negative terms by historians and sociologists. This article explores these early years in detail for one, key, urban setting: Milan. Through an examination of the myriad and often hidden effects of television, the res…
Mass cultures, popular cultures and the working class in Milan, 1950–70∗
The urban periphery, myth and reality
Much contemporary debate on the city concentrates on what is known in Italy as 'la periferia'-the urban fringe, the suburbs, the outer city. In fact, it is almost impossible to study urban history without a deep understanding of the periphery. The periphery is where the vast majority of Europe's people now live. Yet, this understanding is hampered by a widespread confusion about what the periphery is, and the myriad ways in which these urban form…
The Secret Life of Ignazio Silone
Via Rasella, 1944
L'ordine è già stato eseguito: Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la memoria. By Alessandro Portelli. Rome: Donzelli, 1999. Pp. vii+448. ISBN 88-7989-457-9. L.50.000.The battle of Valle Giulia: oral history and the art of dialogue. By A. Portelli. Wisconsin: Wisconsin: University Press, 1997. Pp. xx+354. ISBN 0-299-15374-6. $21.95. [Inc. ‘The massacre at Civitella Val di Chiana (Tuscany, June 29, 1944): Myth and politics, mourning and common sense’, in Th…
Inside the Magic Rectangle
Ada Ferrari and Gaia Giusto (eds.), Milano città della radio televisione (Milan: Francoangeli, 2000) 139pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-1721-6. Chiara Giaccardi, Anna Manzato and Giorgio Simonelli, Il paese catodico. Televisione e identità nazionale in Gran Bretagna, Italia e Svizzera Italiana (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1998) 135pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-0734-2. Ralph Negrine, Television and the Press since 1945 Documents in Contemporary History, …
Heirs of Tangentopoli
Storia di Torino. 6. La citta nel Risorgimento (1798-1864)
Journal Article Storia di Torino. 6. La città nel Risorgimento (1798–1864) Get access John Foot John Foot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 481, April 2004, Pages 428–431, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.481.428 Published: 01 April 2004
Storia di Torino. 8. Dalla Grande Guerra alla liberazione (1915-45)
1University College London Storia di Torino. 8. Dalla Grande Guerra alla liberazione (1915–45) Nicola Tranfaglia Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 1998 xlvi + 871 Eur 67.14
Storia di Torino. 7. Da Capitale politica a capitale industriale (1864-1915)
1University College London Storia di Torino. 7. Da Capitale politica a capitale industriale (1864–1915) Umberto Levra Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 2001 clxi + 1119 Eur 77.47
Editors
Editors: PETER BORSAY, BARRY M. DOYLE and VICTORIA WOLCOTT Dept of History, University College of Wales Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7ED School of Arts and Media, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA Dept of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0070 R. Morelli, E. Sonnino and C. M. Travaglini (eds.), I territori di Roma. Storie, popolazioni, geografie. Rome: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tr…
Storia di Torino. 9. Gli anni della Repubblica
1University College London Storia di Torino. 9. Gli anni della Repubblica Nicola Tranfaglia Turin Giulio Einaudi Editore 1999 xvii + 909 Eur 72.30
Micro-history of a house
The micro-history of one apartment block in the inner-suburb of Bovisa, Milan over a period of 100 or so years is examined using oral history interviews to trace the development of the block and its residents in relation to that of the city of Milan. The piece is bounded by theoretical reflections on the role of micro-history, oral history and other methodologies as tools for understanding the home and urban history, and concludes that the surviv…
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