Alexander De Grand
Biographic Data
| ID | 255563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander De Grand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | De Grand |
| SIGNATURE | DE GRAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 21(3), pp. 522–523
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 20(4), pp. 578–579
Through partisan eyes: My friendships, literary education, and political encounters in Italy (1956–2013)
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), xvi + 295 pp. €30.00/£25.95 paper. This collection of essays by Italian scholars examines various aspects of Ita
Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic
Il Papa non deve parlare: Chiesa, fascismo e guerra d'Etiopia
Il Papa non deve parlare: chiesa, fascismo e guerra d'Etiopia." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(4), pp. 557–558
Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism, ed. Paul Corner
Italian historians have been grappling with the problem of consent or consensus under Fascism since the publication of Renzo De Felice's fourth volume of his Mussolini biography, Gli anni del consenso, in 1974. As Paul Corner points out in his essay on popular opinion under Italian Fascism, De Felice challenged the anti-Fascist orthodoxy that Italy was a country of resisters by arguing that the majority of Italians supported the regime from 1929 …
Reflections on Italian nationalism
Two things come to mind as I read the essays that have been published in this issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Italian nationalism, permanently dissatisfied with Italy as it actually
Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
Mark I. Choate (2008) Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), i–x + 319 pp., ISBN: 9780674027848, US$45.00, hard cover One of the central themes of mo
Working towards the Duce: Five recent books on Mussolini
To Learn Nothing and To Forget Nothing’: Italian Socialism and the Experience of Exile Politics, 1935–1945
As the Italian anti-fascist exiles reorganised after the establishment of a full dictatorship in 1925, they were confronted by a series of difficult issues that no longer could be dealt with in the national context. The overriding need to heal the divisions within the Italian left now would be conditioned by choices made on the international level. The abdication of the Western democracies at Munich meant to many on the left that the Soviet Union…
Mussolini's Follies: Fascism in Its Imperial and Racist Phase, 1935–1940
With the outbreak of war in Ethiopia in late 1935 Italian Fascism shifted into a new phase, which can be called imperial-colonialist-racial. Until 1935 Italy had invested little in the colonies and maintained a relatively small presence in Africa beyond a few cities in Libya. Yet from 1935 to 1940 the Fascist regime shifted enormous amounts of money and effort to create a new Fascist colonial society. This article attempts to explain how this hap…
Comment on Corner: Giolitti's Italy – Sonderweg or Well-Travelled Road?
The idea of an Italian Sonderweg is interesting, but it is not exactly a new interpretation of the Giolittian era. Gaetano Salvemini was very clear in blaming Giolitti for distorting Italy's path to democracy. I agree with Paul Corner's cautionary remark that nothing before the First World War made fascism inevitable. Still, we should look closely at the fifteen years before the Great War, if for no other reason than the fact that the great hopes…
Giovanni Giolitti: A pessimist as modernizer
While not denying Giolitti's role in opening the political process to previously excluded groups, this article describes a fundamentally conservative statesman who was deeply pessimistic about the fragility of the Italian state. Giolitti, who ran every election but one with the aim of weakening the Socialist movement, was intensely uncomfortable about governing in alliance with mass political movements. He governed more successfully from the Cent…
Giovanni Giolitti: A pessimist as modernizer
While not denying Giolitti's role in opening the political process to previously excluded groups, this article describes a fundamentally conservative statesman who was deeply pessimistic about the fragility of the Italian state. Giolitti, who ran every election but one with the aim of weakening the Socialist movement, was intensely uncomfortable about governing in alliance with mass political movements. He governed more successfully from the Cent…
Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano
This is a biography of Count Galeazzo Ciano, based in part on the sensational diaries which he sought to trade for his life and which are among the most revealing sources on the relationship between the Axis powers in the early years of the World War II
Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism, by David I. Kertzer
Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi . Spencer M. Di Scala Da Nenni a Craxi: Il Socialismo Italiano Visto Dagli U.S.A. Spencer M. Di Scala
Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life
Cracks in the Facade: The Failure of Fascist Totalitarianism in Italy 1935-9
American Labor and Postwar Italy, 1943-1953: A Study of Cold War Politics
The Italian Left in the Twentieth Century: A History of the Socialist and Communist Parties
"... a very fair and intelligent description of the vicissitudes of the two parties and students seeking a readable and jargon-free overview of the subject-matter should be directed to this text." -History"De Grand’s study is exceptional in its comprehensive historical perspective... a revealing and evocative synthesis." -Marion S. Miller"De Grand is a useful guide to the complex history of the Italian left." -Thomas R. Brooks, New York City Trib…
Gaetano Salvemini: Tra politica e storia. Gaetano Cingari
Il Campano: Autobiografia politica del fascismo universitario pisano (1926-1944). Paolo Nello
Women under Italian Fascism
Perhaps because the subject seemed so obvious, there has been little work done on women under fascism. This omission is unfortunate not only because Fascist policy was more complicated than the general impression of it but also because it offered an interesting example of the interaction between propaganda and reality in an authoritarian society. Women played an important role in several major propaganda campaigns of fascism, such as the ruraliza…
Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic
Women under Italian Fascism
Perhaps because the subject seemed so obvious, there has been little work done on women under fascism. This omission is unfortunate not only because Fascist policy was more complicated than the general impression of it but also because it offered an interesting example of the interaction between propaganda and reality in an authoritarian society. Women played an important role in several major propaganda campaigns of fascism, such as the ruraliza…
Mussolini's Follies: Fascism in Its Imperial and Racist Phase, 1935–1940
With the outbreak of war in Ethiopia in late 1935 Italian Fascism shifted into a new phase, which can be called imperial-colonialist-racial. Until 1935 Italy had invested little in the colonies and maintained a relatively small presence in Africa beyond a few cities in Libya. Yet from 1935 to 1940 the Fascist regime shifted enormous amounts of money and effort to create a new Fascist colonial society. This article attempts to explain how this hap…
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 20(4), pp. 578–579
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 21(3), pp. 522–523
Working towards the Duce: Five recent books on Mussolini
Cracks in the Facade: The Failure of Fascist Totalitarianism in Italy 1935-9
Women under Italian Fascism
Perhaps because the subject seemed so obvious, there has been little work done on women under fascism. This omission is unfortunate not only because Fascist policy was more complicated than the general impression of it but also because it offered an interesting example of the interaction between propaganda and reality in an authoritarian society. Women played an important role in several major propaganda campaigns of fascism, such as the ruraliza…
Il Campano: Autobiografia politica del fascismo universitario pisano (1926-1944). Paolo Nello
The Italian Left in the Twentieth Century: A History of the Socialist and Communist Parties
"... a very fair and intelligent description of the vicissitudes of the two parties and students seeking a readable and jargon-free overview of the subject-matter should be directed to this text." -History"De Grand’s study is exceptional in its comprehensive historical perspective... a revealing and evocative synthesis." -Marion S. Miller"De Grand is a useful guide to the complex history of the Italian left." -Thomas R. Brooks, New York City Trib…
Gaetano Salvemini: Tra politica e storia. Gaetano Cingari
American Labor and Postwar Italy, 1943-1953: A Study of Cold War Politics
Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life
Cracks in the Facade: The Failure of Fascist Totalitarianism in Italy 1935-9
Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi . Spencer M. Di Scala Da Nenni a Craxi: Il Socialismo Italiano Visto Dagli U.S.A. Spencer M. Di Scala
Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism, by David I. Kertzer
Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano
This is a biography of Count Galeazzo Ciano, based in part on the sensational diaries which he sought to trade for his life and which are among the most revealing sources on the relationship between the Axis powers in the early years of the World War II
Giovanni Giolitti: A pessimist as modernizer
While not denying Giolitti's role in opening the political process to previously excluded groups, this article describes a fundamentally conservative statesman who was deeply pessimistic about the fragility of the Italian state. Giolitti, who ran every election but one with the aim of weakening the Socialist movement, was intensely uncomfortable about governing in alliance with mass political movements. He governed more successfully from the Cent…
Giovanni Giolitti: A pessimist as modernizer
While not denying Giolitti's role in opening the political process to previously excluded groups, this article describes a fundamentally conservative statesman who was deeply pessimistic about the fragility of the Italian state. Giolitti, who ran every election but one with the aim of weakening the Socialist movement, was intensely uncomfortable about governing in alliance with mass political movements. He governed more successfully from the Cent…
Comment on Corner: Giolitti's Italy – Sonderweg or Well-Travelled Road?
The idea of an Italian Sonderweg is interesting, but it is not exactly a new interpretation of the Giolittian era. Gaetano Salvemini was very clear in blaming Giolitti for distorting Italy's path to democracy. I agree with Paul Corner's cautionary remark that nothing before the First World War made fascism inevitable. Still, we should look closely at the fifteen years before the Great War, if for no other reason than the fact that the great hopes…
Mussolini's Follies: Fascism in Its Imperial and Racist Phase, 1935–1940
With the outbreak of war in Ethiopia in late 1935 Italian Fascism shifted into a new phase, which can be called imperial-colonialist-racial. Until 1935 Italy had invested little in the colonies and maintained a relatively small presence in Africa beyond a few cities in Libya. Yet from 1935 to 1940 the Fascist regime shifted enormous amounts of money and effort to create a new Fascist colonial society. This article attempts to explain how this hap…
To Learn Nothing and To Forget Nothing’: Italian Socialism and the Experience of Exile Politics, 1935–1945
As the Italian anti-fascist exiles reorganised after the establishment of a full dictatorship in 1925, they were confronted by a series of difficult issues that no longer could be dealt with in the national context. The overriding need to heal the divisions within the Italian left now would be conditioned by choices made on the international level. The abdication of the Western democracies at Munich meant to many on the left that the Soviet Union…
Working towards the Duce: Five recent books on Mussolini
Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
Mark I. Choate (2008) Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), i–x + 319 pp., ISBN: 9780674027848, US$45.00, hard cover One of the central themes of mo
Reflections on Italian nationalism
Two things come to mind as I read the essays that have been published in this issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Italian nationalism, permanently dissatisfied with Italy as it actually
Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic
Il Papa non deve parlare: Chiesa, fascismo e guerra d'Etiopia
Il Papa non deve parlare: chiesa, fascismo e guerra d'Etiopia." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(4), pp. 557–558
Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism, ed. Paul Corner
Italian historians have been grappling with the problem of consent or consensus under Fascism since the publication of Renzo De Felice's fourth volume of his Mussolini biography, Gli anni del consenso, in 1974. As Paul Corner points out in his essay on popular opinion under Italian Fascism, De Felice challenged the anti-Fascist orthodoxy that Italy was a country of resisters by arguing that the majority of Italians supported the regime from 1929 …
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), xvi + 295 pp. €30.00/£25.95 paper. This collection of essays by Italian scholars examines various aspects of Ita
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 20(4), pp. 578–579
Through partisan eyes: My friendships, literary education, and political encounters in Italy (1956–2013)
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008
The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 21(3), pp. 522–523
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (22 works) · Political science (20 works) · History (19 works) · Law (15 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Political economy (9 works)