Marco Bresciani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4164450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Bresciani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Bresciani |
| SIGNATURE | BRESCIANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1330-9328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Before the strange defeat: Epistemic ruptures and political debates on socialism, Europe and democracy in the Italian Left (late 1970s–early 1990s)
Was there no alternative? Socialist debates and reform projects in late Cold War Europe and beyond
Becoming A Historian is a Passion: A Conversation with Pieter Judson on Habsburg Europe
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)
This chapter relates post-1918 Italy to the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the ascent of the successor states, and analyses, from the Trieste’s vantage point, fascist projects, practices and networks of ‘empire’ in the Adriatic Sea, in Mitteleuropa and in the Balkans between 1918 and 1938. It focuses on three connected aspects. Firstly, the northern Adriatic was the first setting of the ascent of squadrismo, a model of violent action against…
De)globalization, economic sovereignty, imperial legacies between the two world wars (and beyond)
La guerra russo-ucraina e gli storici
The discussion aims to discuss the role of history and historians in the Russian- Ukrainian war. Scholars of Russian/Ukrainian/Soviet history have come to grips with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 and its impact on their research in a broader sense. In the light of the current conflict, they offer new insights into Russia's long-term imperial projects and their territorial implications nation-building in independent Ukrain…
Il vario linguaggio delle riforme: Dalle Crisi Degli Anni '70 Alle Transizioni Degli Anni '90
Trieste and Danzig after the Great War: Imperial Collapse, Narratives of Loss, Reconfigured Globalization
This article reconstructs the consequences of the loss of hinterlands for the port cities of Trieste and Danzig after the Great War, as well as the consequences of the (often conflict-ridden) integration of those hinterlands into new territories. How did these changes reconfigure the relationship of port cities and hinterlands, of port cities and the state, and of ports vis-à-vis each other? Against the background of the instability of the postwa…
Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Idea of Nation: Italian Historiography and Public Debate since the 1980s
It is common to consider 1989 as a kind of ‘zero hour’. This applies to East Central European and to Italian history alike. A thought-provoking book, published in 1993, evoked the image of ‘an avalanche that swells downhill, speeded up and enriched by the great landslide of the nearby great mountain’. In this way the historian Luciano Cafagna described the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Italian democracy. As a matter of fact, the Italia…
Oltre D'Annunzio: La crisi di Fiume tra esperienze paramilitari e sopravvivenze imperiali (1918-1921)
Trasformazioni e transizioni imperiali sulla scia della Grande guerra (1917-1923)
Recensione. Senza fine: Un «dopoguerra» che è ancora guerra (1917-1923)
A post-war without end (1917-1923). Robert Gerwarth summarizes the most recent historiographical trends of, reconsidering the first post-war period within a broader chronological and geographical framework, extending from 1917 to 1923 and shifting the focus from Western to East Central Europe. In this context, shaped by military defeats, conflicts between revolution and counter-revolution, collapse of the Empires, violence is considered as the ke…
L'Impero Asburgico, una storia d'Europa (1740-1918)
A major revision has recently transformed the Habsburg studies, by providing non-national and anti-deterministic approaches to the national questions and nationalism. Fostering and following this revision, Pieter Judson's important work re-writes the history of the Habsburg Empire as part and parcel of Europe as a whole. He focusses on the processes of (imperial) state-building, on the modernization of the everyday life, on the nationalist moveme…
Two historians in front of the economic crisis of 2007-2008: Hobsbawm and Judt between Marxism and the legacies of 20th century
How did intellectuals react to the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and its long-term backlash? What did they learn from the main twentieth-century political and social experiences, in order to make a new sense of the traditional cultures of the Left? In order to answer these crucial issues, this proposal will analyze the paths of the well-known historians E. Hobsbawm and T. Judt and their apparently similar, but actually different reactions to the c…
Socialism, Antifascism and Anti-Totalitarianism: The Intellectual Dialogue (and Discord) between Andrea Caffi and Nicola Chiaromonte (1932–1955)
This article reconstructs the personal and intellectual friendship between two cosmopolitan intellectuals: Andrea Caffi (1887–1955) and Nicola Chiaromonte (1905–1972), who met while in exile in Paris in 1932. After a brief recapitulation of their previous biographies, and an overall presentation of their participation in the revolutionary antifascist group ‘Giustizia e Libertà’ (GL) in the thirties, this article provides a detailed analysis of th…
Recensioni
Tony Judt: Il socialismo, gli intellettuali e l'Europa postbellica
Tony Judt: socialism, intellectuals and postwar Europe sketches an intellectual and historiographical profile of the British Jewish historian Tony Judt (1948-2010). His historical studies concerned French socialism between the 19th and the 20th century, the relationship between French postwar intellectuals and communism, and the East European dissidents. In his masterpiece, Postwar, Judt broadened his historical perspective to Eastern Europe and …
Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Idea of Nation: Italian Historiography and Public Debate since the 1980s
It is common to consider 1989 as a kind of ‘zero hour’. This applies to East Central European and to Italian history alike. A thought-provoking book, published in 1993, evoked the image of ‘an avalanche that swells downhill, speeded up and enriched by the great landslide of the nearby great mountain’. In this way the historian Luciano Cafagna described the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Italian democracy. As a matter of fact, the Italia…
Il vario linguaggio delle riforme: Dalle Crisi Degli Anni '70 Alle Transizioni Degli Anni '90
Trieste and Danzig after the Great War: Imperial Collapse, Narratives of Loss, Reconfigured Globalization
This article reconstructs the consequences of the loss of hinterlands for the port cities of Trieste and Danzig after the Great War, as well as the consequences of the (often conflict-ridden) integration of those hinterlands into new territories. How did these changes reconfigure the relationship of port cities and hinterlands, of port cities and the state, and of ports vis-à-vis each other? Against the background of the instability of the postwa…
Two historians in front of the economic crisis of 2007-2008: Hobsbawm and Judt between Marxism and the legacies of 20th century
How did intellectuals react to the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and its long-term backlash? What did they learn from the main twentieth-century political and social experiences, in order to make a new sense of the traditional cultures of the Left? In order to answer these crucial issues, this proposal will analyze the paths of the well-known historians E. Hobsbawm and T. Judt and their apparently similar, but actually different reactions to the c…
Tony Judt: Il socialismo, gli intellettuali e l'Europa postbellica
Tony Judt: socialism, intellectuals and postwar Europe sketches an intellectual and historiographical profile of the British Jewish historian Tony Judt (1948-2010). His historical studies concerned French socialism between the 19th and the 20th century, the relationship between French postwar intellectuals and communism, and the East European dissidents. In his masterpiece, Postwar, Judt broadened his historical perspective to Eastern Europe and …
Recensioni
Socialism, Antifascism and Anti-Totalitarianism: The Intellectual Dialogue (and Discord) between Andrea Caffi and Nicola Chiaromonte (1932–1955)
This article reconstructs the personal and intellectual friendship between two cosmopolitan intellectuals: Andrea Caffi (1887–1955) and Nicola Chiaromonte (1905–1972), who met while in exile in Paris in 1932. After a brief recapitulation of their previous biographies, and an overall presentation of their participation in the revolutionary antifascist group ‘Giustizia e Libertà’ (GL) in the thirties, this article provides a detailed analysis of th…
Two historians in front of the economic crisis of 2007-2008: Hobsbawm and Judt between Marxism and the legacies of 20th century
How did intellectuals react to the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and its long-term backlash? What did they learn from the main twentieth-century political and social experiences, in order to make a new sense of the traditional cultures of the Left? In order to answer these crucial issues, this proposal will analyze the paths of the well-known historians E. Hobsbawm and T. Judt and their apparently similar, but actually different reactions to the c…
L'Impero Asburgico, una storia d'Europa (1740-1918)
A major revision has recently transformed the Habsburg studies, by providing non-national and anti-deterministic approaches to the national questions and nationalism. Fostering and following this revision, Pieter Judson's important work re-writes the history of the Habsburg Empire as part and parcel of Europe as a whole. He focusses on the processes of (imperial) state-building, on the modernization of the everyday life, on the nationalist moveme…
Recensione. Senza fine: Un «dopoguerra» che è ancora guerra (1917-1923)
A post-war without end (1917-1923). Robert Gerwarth summarizes the most recent historiographical trends of, reconsidering the first post-war period within a broader chronological and geographical framework, extending from 1917 to 1923 and shifting the focus from Western to East Central Europe. In this context, shaped by military defeats, conflicts between revolution and counter-revolution, collapse of the Empires, violence is considered as the ke…
Trasformazioni e transizioni imperiali sulla scia della Grande guerra (1917-1923)
Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Idea of Nation: Italian Historiography and Public Debate since the 1980s
It is common to consider 1989 as a kind of ‘zero hour’. This applies to East Central European and to Italian history alike. A thought-provoking book, published in 1993, evoked the image of ‘an avalanche that swells downhill, speeded up and enriched by the great landslide of the nearby great mountain’. In this way the historian Luciano Cafagna described the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Italian democracy. As a matter of fact, the Italia…
Oltre D'Annunzio: La crisi di Fiume tra esperienze paramilitari e sopravvivenze imperiali (1918-1921)
Il vario linguaggio delle riforme: Dalle Crisi Degli Anni '70 Alle Transizioni Degli Anni '90
Trieste and Danzig after the Great War: Imperial Collapse, Narratives of Loss, Reconfigured Globalization
This article reconstructs the consequences of the loss of hinterlands for the port cities of Trieste and Danzig after the Great War, as well as the consequences of the (often conflict-ridden) integration of those hinterlands into new territories. How did these changes reconfigure the relationship of port cities and hinterlands, of port cities and the state, and of ports vis-à-vis each other? Against the background of the instability of the postwa…
Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)
This chapter relates post-1918 Italy to the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the ascent of the successor states, and analyses, from the Trieste’s vantage point, fascist projects, practices and networks of ‘empire’ in the Adriatic Sea, in Mitteleuropa and in the Balkans between 1918 and 1938. It focuses on three connected aspects. Firstly, the northern Adriatic was the first setting of the ascent of squadrismo, a model of violent action against…
De)globalization, economic sovereignty, imperial legacies between the two world wars (and beyond)
La guerra russo-ucraina e gli storici
The discussion aims to discuss the role of history and historians in the Russian- Ukrainian war. Scholars of Russian/Ukrainian/Soviet history have come to grips with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 and its impact on their research in a broader sense. In the light of the current conflict, they offer new insights into Russia's long-term imperial projects and their territorial implications nation-building in independent Ukrain…
Becoming A Historian is a Passion: A Conversation with Pieter Judson on Habsburg Europe
Before the strange defeat: Epistemic ruptures and political debates on socialism, Europe and democracy in the Italian Left (late 1970s–early 1990s)
Was there no alternative? Socialist debates and reform projects in late Cold War Europe and beyond
Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (5 works)