The University of Western Australia

Dr Richard Bosworth

History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M204)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2131

Fax

6488 1069

Email

richard.bosworth@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.19, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

MA Syd., PhD Camb., FAHA, FASSA

Biography

Born:7 December 1943, Sydney

1960Dux, SCEGS, North Sydney
1965BA 1st Class Honours, University of Sydney
1965-6Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney
1966-9Commonwealth Scholar to the UK based at St. John’s College, Cambridge
1967MA 1st Class Honours, University of Sydney
1969Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
1971PhD, University of Cambridge
1975Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
1981Associate Professor in History, University of Sydney
1981-5Deputy Director, F. May Foundation for Italian Studies
1982-3 ; 1986Acting Director, F. May Foundation for Italian Studies
1985Appointed to the Chair in History, University of Western Australia (taken up on 1 January 1987-)
1988-1990Head of Department
1991-(July to October) Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
1992(January to August) Visiting Overseas Scholar, St John's College, Cambridge.
1993-7Member, Editorial Board, International History Review
1993-Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia
1994-9Member, Editorial Board, Convivio: a Journal of Italian Studies;
1994-2006Editorial advisor, Modern Italy.
1995-7Staff elected member, UWA Senate; 1995- Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities.
1997-8Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge from November 1997 to July 1998.
1998Elected Life Member, Clare Hall.
2000(March) Visiting Fellow Italian Academy, Columbia University.
2002 (January-May) Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford.
2002-Member board International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism.
2003-Member Editorial board History Compass; accorded Australian Centenary Medal 'for services to history and the humanities'; won the overall Western Australian Premier's prize for literature and that for non-fiction, as well as the National History Prize, given by the Queensland government (for my biography of Mussolini).
2003 Converted to being research professor, UWA.
2004 Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy (February to June). September 2004 to July 2005 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.
2007-2012Shared 0.5 professorships in History Departments at Reading University, U.K. and the University of Western Australia (Winthrop professor).
2009-Member editorial board History Australia; elected honorary member of the Modern European History Research Centre at Oxford University.
2011-4Elected Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford.

Key research

historian of the modern world and especially Italy.

Publications

a)Books:

1.Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Destruction of Liberal Italy, 1900-1945, Rigby, Adelaide, 1973.

2.Italy, the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War, Cambridge U.P., 1979, paperback edition, 2005.

3.(with G. Cresciani, eds), Altro Polo: a Volume of Italian Studies, F. May Foundation, Sydney, 1979.

4.Italy and the Approach of the First World War, Macmillan, London, 1983.

5.(With G. Rizzo, eds), Altro Polo: a Study of Intellectuals and Ideas in Contemporary Italy, F. May Foundation, Sydney, 1983, including my chapter on 'Italian foreign policy and its historiography' and my introduction.

6.(With J. Wilton), Old Worlds and New Australia: a History of Non-British Migration to Australia Since the Second World War, Penguin, Ringwood, 1984, (3rd ed., 1987).

7.La politica estera dell'Italia giolittiana, Riuniti, Rome, 1985 (translation of Italy the Least of the Great Powers).

8.(With M. Melia) (eds), Aspects of Ethnicity: Studies in Western Australian History, Vol. XII, Nedlands, 1991, including my 'Preface'; my 'Luigi Mistrorigo and La Stampa Italiana: the strange story of a Fascist journalist in Perth' and (with M. Melia) my 'The Italian feste of Western Australia and the myth of the universal church'.

9.(with S. Romano) (eds), La politica estera italiana, 1861-1985, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1991, including my 'Mito e linguaggio nella politica estera italiana'.

10.(with R. Ugolini) (eds), War, internment and mass migration: the Italo-Australian experience 1940-1990, Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Rome, 1992 including my 'Introduction', and my (ed.) 'Oral histories of internment'.

11.Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: history writing and the Second World War 1945-1990, Routledge, London, 1993 (paperback edition, 1994).

12(with M. Bosworth), Fremantle's Italy, Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Rome, 1993.

13.Italy and the wider world 1860-1960, Routledge, London, 1996.

14.An annotated translation (with M. Melia) of Leopoldo Zunini's L'Australia attuale (Western Australia as it is today, 1906) University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1997. The book also includes my introductory paper 'Leopoldo Zunini and Liberal Italy'.

15.The Italian dictatorship: problems and perspectives in the interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism, E. Arnold, London, OUP, New York, 1998 (paperback and hardcover).

16.(with Patrizia Dogliani eds), Italian Fascism: history, memory and representation, Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, London/New York, 1999 including my chapter 'Film memories of Fascism' and an 'Introduction' co-written with Dogliani; I also translated the five chapters in the book written by Italian authors.

17.Mussolini, Arnold, London, OUP, New York, 2002.

18.Mussolini, Barcelona, Peninsula, 2003 (Spanish translation of above).

19.Mussolini, Milan, A. Mondadori, 2004 (Italian translation of above; paperback ‘Oscar’ edition, 2005).

20.Mussolini’s Italy: life under the dictatorship 1915-1945, Allen Lane/Penguin, London, 2005; (US edition, The Penguin Press, New York, 2006).

21.Nationalism (Pearson, London, 2007). Estonian translation, 2010.

22.L’Italia di Mussolini 1915-1945 (Italian translation of Mussolini’s Italy) Mondadori, Milan, 2007 (paperback edition, 2009).

23.The Oxford handbook of fascism, Oxford University Press, 2009. In this collection of 31 essays by international contributors, I myself wrote the Introduction and a chapter on ‘Dictators strong or weak? The model of Benito Mussolini’ and I joined with Nathan Stoltzfus in a chapter on ‘Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy’. I also translated four chapters by the Italian contributors Canali, Corni, Dogliani and Franzinelli (paperback edition, October 2010).

24.rev. ed. of Mussolini, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2010.

25.Whispering city: Rome and its histories, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2011.

26. (with Lindsay Stade and Stan Bell) From humble beginnings: the Mount Lawley Golf Club Perth Western Australia, published under Club auspices, Inglewood, 2011.


b)Chapters in Books:

1.'L'Italia dopo l'unificazione (1870-1914)'and 'L'Europa della belle epoque', in J.C. Allain, R.J.B. Bosworth et al., Il Passaggio del Secolo e la Grande Guerra, 2 Vols., Jaca Books, Milan, 1983.

2.'Italy and the end of the Ottoman Empire' in M. Kent (ed.), The Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empire, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1984 (republished in new ed., 1996 with Frank Cass).

3.'Italy's historians and the myth of Fascism' in R. Langhorne (ed.), Essays on Diplomacy and Intelligence during the Second World War, Cambridge U.P., 1985.

4.'Post-war Italian immigration', section in J. Jupp (ed.), The Australian People: an Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1988.

5.'Italia e Australia: relazione in sviluppo?', in F. Lucchesi (ed.), Orizzonte Australia: percezione e realtà di un continente, Edizioni Unicopli, Milan, 1988.

6.'Australia and Italian history', in C. Bettoni and J. Lo Bianco (eds), Understanding Italy: Language, culture, commerce, and Australian perspective, F. May Foundation, Sydney, 1989.

7.'L'Italia d'Australia: 1988', in R. Ugolini (ed.), Italia - Australia 1788-1988, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Rome, 1991.

8.'Golf and Italian Fascism', in M.R. Farrally and A.J. Cochran (eds), Science and Golf III: proceedings of the 1998 World Scientific Congress of Golf, Human kinetics, London, 1999.

9.'History, Fascism, Europe and Australia after the end of history', in B. Bennett (ed.), Australia in between cultures, Australian Academy of Humanities, Canberra, 1999.

10. In G. Moliterno (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, I contributed the sections on anti-fascism (pp. 18-9); emigration (pp. 194-7); fascism and neo-fascism (pp. 212-40; foreign policy (pp. 239-241); historiography (pp. 268-271); Pertini, Sandro (p. 434); Resistance (pp. 508-9).

11.‘The internment of Italians in Australia’, in F. Iacovetta, R. Perin and A. Principe (eds), Enemies within: Italian and other internees in Canada and abroad, University of Toronto Press, 2000.

12.‘Australia’s Europe: a fading identity?’ in L. Tosi (ed.), Europe, its borders and the others, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Perugia, 2000.

13.‘The Second World War’ in N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, (pp. 13771-7; also available electronically, 2002).

14.seven articles of varied length in V. De Grazia and S. Luzzatto (eds), Enciclopedia sul fascismo, Einaudi, Turin, 2003. (‘Anglophobia’, Vol. I, pp. ; ‘Diplomazia’, vol. I, pp. ; ‘Monaco’ Vol. I, pp. ; ‘Politica estera’ Vol. II, pp. 398-403; ‘Trattato di Rapallo’, Vol. II, pp. 465-6; ‘ Stresa, conferenza di’ p. 706; ‘Turismo’ Vol. II, pp. 747-751).

15.'Foreword' to G. Cresciani, The Italians in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (pp. ix -xii).

16.'Peace and war in the theory of Fascist Italy' in Chiba University conference on Global Public Peace and War from the perspective of state and rights, Chiba, 2004.

17.‘Benito Mussolini’ in J. Winter and J. Merriman (eds), Europe since 1914: encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction C. Scribner, New York, 2006.

18.‘Nationalism’ in G. Martel (ed.), A companion to international history 1900-2001 Blackwell, Oxford, 2007 (paperback edition, 2010), pp. 26-38.

19.‘Italy’ in R. Gerwarth (ed.), Twisted paths: Europe 1914-1945 Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 161-183 (paperback, 2008).

20.‘Foreword’ to G. Lichtner, Film and the Shoah in France and Italy London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008 pp. vii-ix.

21.‘Rome 1905’ in R. Bosworth, C. Inman and J. Davidow, Rome memories of time past: 70 paintings by Alberto Pisa (Cambridge: Worth Press, 2008) pp. 5-18.

22.‘”It would not be right to have beautiful legends discredited by historical criticism”’, in Michael Leventhal and Peter Furtado (eds), The hand of history: an anthology of history quotations and commentaries, London: Frontline Books, 2011, pp. 20-1.

23.‘Italian foreign policy and the road to war, 1918-1939: ambitions and delusions of the least of the Great Powers’ in The Origins of the Second World War: 70 Years On (ed. F. Macdonough) (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 66-81.

c)Articles:

1.'The English, the historians and the età giolittiana', Historical Journal, XXI, 1969.

2.'Sir Rennel Rodd e l'Italia', Nuova Rivista Storica, LIV, 1970.

3.'The British press, the conservatives and Mussolini, 1920-34', Journal of Contemporary History, 5, 1970.

4.'Britain and Italy's acquisition of the Dodecanese 1912-1915', Historical Journal, XIII, 1970.

5.The historiography of twentieth century Italy: answers and questions', Teaching History, 4, 1970.

6.'Verdi and the Risorgimento', Italian Quarterly, XIV, 1971.

7.'The Albanian forests of Signor Giacomo Vismara: a case study of Italian economic imperialism during foreign ministry of Antonino Di San Giuliano', Historical Journal, XVII, 1975.

8.'The opening of the Victor Emmanuel monument', Italian Quarterly, XVIII, 1975.

9.'The historiography of modern Italy: recent developments', Australian Journal of Politics and History, XXIII, 1977.

10.'In the green corner, Denis Mack Smith, in the red? black? corner, Renzo De Felice: an account of the 1976 contest in the historiography of Italian Fascism', Teaching History, 11, 1977.

11.'Why watermelons belong on the Left: the Italian general elections of 1976', Australian Outlook, 31, 1977.

12.'The Messina earthquake of 28 December 1908', European Studies Review, 11, 1981.

13.(With J. Wilton), 'Novels, poems and the study of Europeans in Australia', Teaching History, 15, 1981.

14.(With J. Wilton), 'A lost history? The study of European migration to Australia', Australian Journal of Politics and History, XXXVII, 1981.

15.'The point of Eco', Australian Book Review, 51, 1983.

16.'Cop what lot? A study of Australian attitudes towards Italian mass migration in the 1950's', Studi Emigrazione, XX, 1983.

17.'Italian history and Australian Universities', Risorgimento, 4, 1983.

18.'Nazism, beast from the abyss or triumph of the nation?', Veritas, 5, 1984.

19.'Conspiracy of the consuls? Official Italy and the Bonegilla riot of 1952', Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, 22, 1987.

20.'Official Italy re-discovers Australia', Affari Sociali Internazionali, XVI, 1988.

21.'History, science and racism: an unholy trinity', The Australian Listener, 12, 15-21 October, 1988.

22.'Did Joe Stalin really exist?', Historicus, May 1988.

23.'Australia and assisted immigration from Britain 1945-54', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 34, 1988.

24.'Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900, and the myth of Fascism', European History Quarterly, 19, 1989.

25.'The Decennale of Late Modern European History I (LME I) or Teaching War and Revolution in East and West 1978-1988', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, 59-60, 1989.

26.'Denis Mack Smith and the Third Italy', International History Review, XI, 1990.

27.'Storia dell'immigrazione e storia nazionale: Australia/Immigration history and national history', Altreitalie, 4, 1990.

28.'Italy, 1993: death of a regime?', Current Affairs Bulletin, 70, 1993.

29.'The limits of Schindler's List', Current Affairs Bulletin, 70, 1994.

30.'Renato Citarelli, Fascist Vice Consul in Perth: a documentary note', Papers in Labour History, 14, 1994.

31.'The wars that never ended', The Australian, 6 May 1995.

32.'I Bosworth, Emma Ciccotosto e Fremantle's Italy, o lo studio dell'italianità nell'Australia occidentale', Altreitalie, 13, 1995

33.'L'affaire Demidenko-Darville', Ormond Papers, 12, 1995

34.'Nations examine their past: a comparative analysis of the historiography of the "long" Second World War', The History Teacher, 29, 1996.

35.'Tourist planning in Fascist Italy and the limits of a totalitarian culture', Contemporary European History, 6, 1997.

36.'On re-reading Gibbon: a love story', Bulletin of the Australian Historical Association, 84, 1997.

37.'The Touring Club Italiano and the nationalization of the Italian bourgeoisie', European History Quarterly, 27, 1997.

38.'Death of a First Year course', Campus Review, 11 June 1997.

39. 'Writing a history of modern Italy as an Australian', Convivio, 3, 1997.

40.'Il caso dell'Italia', Prometeo, 16, September 1998

41.'Explaining "Auschwitz" after the end of history: the Italian case', History and Theory, 38, 1999.

42.'Venice between Fascism and international tourism 1911-45', Modern Italy, 4, 1999.

43.'The Balkans Tragedy', West Australian, 24 April 1999.

44.'Fascism after the end of history: an introduction', The European Legacy, 4, i, 1999 (I was the guest editor for this issue of the journal).

45.'Two conferences, two continents and a question', Dialogue, 18, 1999.

46.'Il Duce, after death', The Australian's Book Review, August 1999.

47.'Per necessità famigliare: hypocrisy and corruption in Fascist Italy', European History Quarterly, 30, 2000.

48.‘Shoah business: una storia’, Storica, V, 2000.

49.‘Delusions of the Sawdust Caesar’, BBC History Magazine, 3, iv, 2002.

50.‘Imagining Mussolini with advantages: the case of Edgardo Sulis’, European History Quarterly, 32, iv, 2002.

51. ‘Benito Mussolini: dictator’, Historically Speaking, IV, v, June 2003.

52.'Mussolini, Mussolini and me', Bulletin of the Australian Historical Association, 96, June 2003.

53.'Biography in modern Italian studies' (discussion with C. Angier, C. Duggan and M. Gilbert), Modern Italy, 8, ii, 2003.

54.‘War, totalitarianism and “deep belief” in Fascist Italy 1935-1943’, European History Quarterly, 34, iv, 2004.

55.‘Everyday Mussolinism: friends, family, locality and violence in Fascist Italy’, Contemporary European History, XIV, i, 2005.

56.‘Coming to terms with Fascism in Italy’, History Today, 55, xi, 2005.

57.'The Italian Novecento and its historians’, Historical Journal, 49, i, 2006.

58.'A country split in two? Contemporary Italy and its usable pasts', History Compass, 4, August 2006 (web access at 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00356.x).

59.‘Doing European history from Australia: an idiosyncratic historian’s journey’, New Critic (web access at www.ias.uwa.edu.au/the_new_critic), 2007.

60.‘The killing of histories’, Australian Financial Review, 25 January 2007.

61.‘Benito Mussolini: bad guy on the international block?’ Contemporary European History, 18, i, 2009.

62.‘Permanent decline and fall or imaginable resurrection? the fate of History at UWA as viewed from the edge of retirement’, The New Critic, 11, March 2009 (web access at www.ias.uwa.edu.au/the_new_critic).

63.‘Mussolini, template of the modern dictator’ Newcastle Herald, 13 March 2010.

64.‘L‘Anno Santo Holy Year in Fascist Italy 1933-4?’ European History Quarterly, 40, iii, 2010.

65.‘Obituary for Roger N.L. Absalom’, Modern Italy, 15, ii, 2010.

66.‘The Rome Olympics of August-September 1960’ History Today, 60, viii, August 2010.

67.‘From where I sit: to get in, MBA is the master key’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 26 August 2010.

68.‘The Canon: Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 September 2010.

69.'Mussolini frustrated', BBC History Magazine, 11, x, October 2010 (an edited version was re-published in BBC Knowledge, 15, January-February 2011 under the title ‘Mussolini: the lover and the lout’; an Italian version was published in March 2011).

70.‘Rome and its histories: a view from Australia’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 56, iv, 2010.

71.‘From where I sit: loyalty tests’, Times Higher Education Supplement, online http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414714&c=2, 24 December 2010.

72.‘Fine words and a handful of dust’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 March 2011.

73.‘Rome’s monumentissimo’, History Today, 61, vi, June 2011.

74.‘From where I sit - Bowl out the “Measurers”', Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 June 2011.

Other Publications:

Over the years I have also done a considerable amount of script-writing for the ABC both in their educational section and, more generally, for their Features and Drama department. My best-known programme was a seven-part study of pre-1914 Europe which went to air in 1977 under the title 'Europe before the lamps went out'. It was repeated on a number of occasions. A programme on Gramsci was produced in 1985, and two on Carlo Ginzburg in 1988. In that same year I scripted 'Munich 1938: The Reprieve' and 'Kristallnacht and the Nazi Revolution' which went to air in November 1988. I have also participated on many occasions in the programmes of the ABC's Social History unit and on such programmes as 'Ockham's Razor'. One instance was in 1997 when I spoke on 'History, the nation and the pasts'. In 1999, I did interviews during the Balkan crisis for the ABC, commercial and ethnic radio as well as being interviewed on Manning Clark for a social history programme. I also spoke about Benigni's film La vita è bella. Some summary of my reputation in Italy at that time can be found in E. Serra, 'Richard J.B. Bosworth e l'Italia', Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali, LXVII, 2000, pp. 307-313. In March 2002 I appeared in panel discussions about my biography of Mussolini for the digital TV programme ‘Relax with a book’ and on the BBC flagship cultural programme ‘Start the Week’ with Jeremy Paxman. My colleagues in that instance were Mario Vargas Llosa, John Nott and Rowena Young. In April 2002, I did a lengthy interview with Philip Adams on ABC ‘Late Night Live’ again about my biography of Mussolini and its early reception. On 29 July 2002 (for Mussolini’s birthday) I was interviewed for RAI Trieste. On 28 October 2002 I was interviewed both by BBC World Service and Radio 4 about Mussolini as dictator. In September 2002, I gave a long interview to Bill Bunbury of the ABC radio programme Hindsight. He worked the material into an hour-long programme about Fascism that went to air on 1 December 2002. It was re-played in December 2008. My winning of the WA Premier's prizes in June 2003 also entailed a number of resultant press appearances, as did the appearance of the translation into Spanish (November, 2003) and Italian (May, 2004) of the biography (I was in Spain and Italy for the launching periods). In May 2005 I was interviewed for the Radio National programme ‘The Europeans’ about Italian reactions to the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. In August 2005, I was again interviewed by RAI Trieste, this time about the impact of my biography of Mussolini in Italy and elsewhere. In February 2006 I appeared again on the ABC’s Late Night Live to discuss life under the Fascist dictatorship and that month I also spoke in the Perspective slot before the news on ‘Avoiding Hitler’s ghost’. In July 2006 I was interview by ABC radio Sydney on the question of the efficiency of Mussolini’s dictatorship. In March 2007, it was the turn of Irish Radio Newstalk 106 in Dublin. With them I participated in a panel of four in an hour-long debate on the nature of Mussolini’s regime. In January 2008, I did an interview with Reuters (Rome) on the possible historical reflexes of the then Italian political situation. On 2 May 2008, an article in the London Guardian by Tobias Jones on the return of Fascism in Italy included material from an interview with me. On 24 September 2008, my letter to the editor of the Australian decrying the absurd neo-con concept of ‘culture wars’ was published in Mr. Murdoch’s paper. On 30 October 2009 the Australian published my letter comparing the ALP’s ‘Indonesian solution’ with that of Berlusconi in Libya. In November 2009, I was interviewed by Sophie Sunderland of STUDYSmarter in Student Services at UWA in order to contribute to a website directed at improving student writing on the campus.
In 2010, actor Gary Oldman, the villain of the piece, was introduced into the Hollywood film, The Book of Eli, reading a copy of my biography of Mussolini. Quizzed on the web (video.about.com/movies/Gary-Oldman-Book of Eli.htm), Oldman explained ‘choosing Mussolini was our way of winking a little bit. It’s a bit of whimsy. And beyond that, I think the foreign press wanted some deep answer about why Mussolini, what it must mean. But it was I wear black, I had the boots, and I slicked my hair back, you know? So you go for Mussolini’. Alas for authorial ambition!
In July 2010, I did an extended interview with the BBC History Magazine in regard to my article on ‘Frustrating Mussolini’. The interview was then podcast in the BBCHM series. On 12 August 2010, the Times Higher Education Supplement published a brief comment from me on Joe Maiolo’s Cry Havoc: the arms race and the Second World War 1931-41 (London: John Murray, 2009) in its column ‘What are we reading?’ On 23 September 2010, my comment was about Sheila Fitzpatrick’s My father’s daughter: memories of an Australian childhood (Melbourne University Press, 2010). On 16 June 2011 I focused on The Cambridge Companion to Cricket (eds. Anthony Bateman and Jeffrey Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
I was interviewed in Vanessa Roghi, Mussolini: the story of a personality cult (2011), a 3 part documentary that was a result of the combined British-Australian research grant on the Cult of the Duce.

Reviews:

Over the years I have written many reviews for a large variety of journals (I average some five per year and I review books in English, Italian and, occasionally, French). The journals include Journal of Modern History, European History Quarterly, International History Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Religious History, Australian Journal of Politics and History, English Historical Review, Historical Journal, German History, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Journal of the History of European Ideas, Labour History, Studies in Western Australian History, The European Legacy, Journal of Australian Studies, American Historical Review, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, War in History, Journal of Japanese Studies, The Historian, The Times Higher Education Supplement, History Today.

Reviews since 1993:

1. H. Lehmann and J.J. Sheehan, An interrupted past: German-speaking refugee historians in the United States after 1933, Cambridge UP, 1991, for German History, 11, 1993, pp. 259-260.

2. R. Douglas, Between the wars 1919-1939: the cartoonists' vision, Routledge, London, 1992, for International History Review, XV, i, 1993, pp. 183-4.

3. M. Ferro, Nicholas II: the last of the tsars, Viking, Harmondsworth, 1991, for Historical Journal, 36, i, 1993, pp.245-6.

4. S. Castles et al, Australia's Italians: culture and community in a changing society, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1992, for Labor history, 65, 1993, pp. 245-6.

5. R. Palmer Domenico, Italian Fascists on trial, 1943-1948, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1992, for International History Review, XV, iii, 1993, pp. 619-621.

6. N. Viviani (ed.) The abolition of the White Australia Policy: the immigration reform movement revisited, Australia-Asia Paper no. 65, Griffith University, 1992 for Australian Journal of Politics and History, 39, 1993, pp. 278-9.

7. N. Pernicone, Italian Anarchism 1864-1892, Princeton University Press, 1993 for History of European Ideas, 18, November 1994, pp. 1020-1022.

8. F.J. Coppa, The origins of the Italian wars of independence, Longman, London, 1992 for International History Review, XVI, i, 1994, pp. 154-5.

9. A. Lepore, La questione meridionale prima dell'intervento straordinario, P. Lacaita, Manduria, 1991 for English Historical Review, CIX, September 1994, p. 1030.

10. R. De Felice, Bibliografia orientativa del Fascismo, Bonacci, Rome, 1991 for International History Review, XVI, iii, 1994, pp. 616-7.

11. E. Serra and C. Seton-Watson (eds), Italia e Inghilterra nell'età dell'imperialismo, F. Angeli, Milan, 1990 for English Historical Review, CIX, April 1994, pp. 522-3.

12. M. Serra, La ferita della modernità: intellettuali, totalitarismo e immagine del nemico, il Mulino, Bologna, 1992 for History of European Ideas, 18, September 1994, pp. 774-5.

13. D. Carpi, Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian authorities in France and Tunisia, Brandeis University Press, Hanover NH, 1994 for International History Review, XVII, iii, 1995, pp. 622-4.

14. S. Fitzgerald and G. Wotherspoon (eds), Minorities: cultural diversity in Sydney, State Library of NSW Press, 1995 for Studies in Western Australian History, 16, 1995, pp. 175-6.

15. P. Furlong and D. Curtis (eds), The Church faces the modern world: Rerum Novarum and its impact, Earlsgate Press, Hull, 1994, for Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 47, i, 1996, pp. 203-4.

16. D. LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust: history, theory, trauma, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1994, for Journal of Modern History, 68, iii, 1996, pp. 673-4.

17. M. King, The death of the child Valerio Marcello, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994, for The European Legacy, 1, vi, 1996, p. 2002.

18. J. Lack and J. Templeton (eds), Bold Experiment: a documentary history of Australian Immigration since 1945, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995 for Australian Historical Studies, 106, April 1996, pp. 194-5.

19. P. Morgan, Italian Fascism, 1919-1945, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995, for The European Legacy, 1, vi, 1996, pp. 206-7.

20. Jay Winter, Sites of memory, sites of mourning: the Great War in European cultural history, Cambridge University Press, 1995, for International History Review, XVIII, iv, 1996, pp. 937-9.

21. D. O'Connor, No need to be afraid: Italian settlers in South Australia between 1839 and the Second World War, Wakefield Press, Kent Town (SA), 1996, for Journal of Australian Studies, 50-1, 1996, pp. 179-180.

22. M.J. Hogan (ed.), Hiroshima in history and memory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, for International History Review, XIX, i, 1997, pp. 122-3.

23. Simone Neri Serneri, Classe, partito, nazione: alle origini della democrazia italiana 1919-1948, P. Lacaita Editore, Manduria, 1995, for European History Quarterly, 27, i, 1997, pp. 157-8.

24. Federico Chabod, Italian foreign policy: the statecraft of the founders, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, for International History Review, XIX, iii, 1997, pp. 680-3.

25. D.J. Grange, L'Italie et la Méditerranée (1896-1911): Les fondements d'une politique étrangère, 2 vols., Ecole française de Rome, Rome, 1994, for English Historical Review, CXII, June 1997, pp. 803-4.

26. T.C.W. Blanning and David Cannadine (eds.), History and biography: essays in honour of Derek Beales, Cambridge University Press, 1996 for Historical Journal, 40, 1997, pp. 566-7.

27. W.D. Rubinstein, The myth of rescue: why the democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis, Routledge, London, 1997, for The Australian's Review of Books, 2, 8, September 1997, pp. 4-5.

28. Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-Brause (eds), History-Making. The intellectual and social formation of a discipline, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Stockholm, Konfererser 37, 1996, for Australian Journal of Politics and History, 44, i, 1998, p. 154.

29. M.L. Napolitano, Mussolini e la conferenza di Locarno, 1925. Il problema della sicurezza nella politica estera italiana, Editrice Montefeltro, Urbino, 1996, for English Historical Review, CXIII, June 1998, pp. 783-4.

30. Nicholas Doumanis, Myth and memory in the Mediterranean: remembering Fascism's empire. Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, London/New York, 1997, for International History Review, XX, iii, 1998, pp. 722-4.

31. C. Ipsen, Dictating demography: the problem of population in Fascist Italy. Cambridge University Press, 1996, for American Historical Review, 103, October 1998, pp. 1276-7.

32. H.J. Burgwyn, Italian foreign policy in the inter-war period, 1918-1940, Praeger, Westport Conn., 1997, for American Historical Review, 104, 1999, pp. 271-2.

33-4. Double review of R. Bessel (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: comparisons and contrasts, Cambridge University Press, 1996 and E. Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 1996 for The European Legacy, 4, i, 1999, pp. 131-4.

35. R. Haines, Emigration and the labouring poor: Australian recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60, Macmillan, London, 1997, for International Migration Review, XXXIII, 2, 1999, p. 494.

36. Piero Bevilacqua, Venezia e le sue acque: una metafora planetaria (rev. ed.) Donzelli, Rome, 1998, for Modern Italy, 4, 2, 1999, pp. 261-3.

37. Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1999, for The Australian's Review of Books, December 1999, pp. 9-10.

38. Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan (eds), War and remembrance in the twentieth century, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999, for International History Review, XXI, December 1999, pp. 1051-3.

39. Robert Mallett, The Italian Navy and Fascist expansionism 1935-1940. F. Cass, London, 1998, for American Historical Review, 104, v, December 1999, p. 1789.

40. Abbott Gleason, Totalitarianism: the inner history of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 for Journal of Modern History, 72, i, March 2000, pp. 183-4.

41. Lucy Riall, Sicily and the unification of Italy: Liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998 for The European Legacy, 5, iii, 2000, pp. 442-3.

42. Stanley Payne, A history of fascism 1914-1945, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 1995, for The European Legacy, 5, iii, 2000, pp. 443-4.

43. Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, 1999, for International History Review, XXII, 3, 2000, pp. 705-6.

44. Guido Bersellini, Il riscatto 8 settembre-25 aprile: le tesi di Renzo De Felice Salò - La Resistenza L'identità della nazione, FrancoAngeli, Milan, 1998 for Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 5, ii, 2000, pp. 258-260.

45. Aristotle A. Kallis, Fascist ideology: territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, for German History, 19, 2001, pp. 310-1.

46. Macgregor Knox, Common Destiny: dictatorship, foreign policy, and war in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000 for International History Review, 23, ii, 2001, pp. 454-6.

47. Sarah Farmer, Martyred village: commemorating the 1944 massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999 for The European Legacy, 6, iv, 2001, pp. 523-4.

48-9. Rosaria Quartararo, Italia-URSS 1917-1941: i rapporti politici, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 1997; I rapporti italo-americani durante il fascismo (1922-1941), Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 1999 for Modern Italy, 6, ii, 2001, pp. 248-9.

50. Stanislao G. Pugliese, Carlo Rosselli: socialist heretic and Antifascist exile, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Ma., 1999 for The European Legacy, 6, vi, 2001, pp. 826-7.

51. Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy’s many diasporas, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000 for International History Review, XXIII, iv, 2001, pp. 893-4.

52. István Deák, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt (eds), The politics of retribution in Europe: World War II and its aftermath, Princeton University Press, 2000 for Australian Journal of Politics and History, 47, iii, 2001, p. 443.

53. Marja Härmänmaa, Un patriota che sfidò la decadenza: F.T. Marinetti e l’idea dell’uomo nuovo fascista, 1929-1944, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinski, 2000 for The European Legacy, 7, iii, 2002, pp. 400-1.

54-6. ‘Three glimpses of fascism’, a joint review of The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State. By António Costa Pinto (Social Science Monographs, Boulder, 2000); Hitler’s Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-1943. By MacGregor Knox (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Integral Europe: fast-capitalism, multiculturalism, neofascism. By Douglas R. Holmes (Princeton University Press, 2000) 253pp, for The European Legacy, 7, 5, 2002, pp. 649-652.

57. Lawrence DiStasi (ed.), Una storia segreta: the secret history of Italian-American evacuation and internment during World War II, Heyday books, Berkeley, 2001 for Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 7, iv, 2002, pp. 434-6.

58. Adriano Boncompagni, ‘The world is just like a village’:globalization and transnationalism of Italian migrants from Tuscany in Western Australia, European Press Academic Publishing, Fucecchio (FI), 2001 for International Migration Review, XXXVI, 4, 2002, pp. 1236-7.

59. Alexander De Grand, The Hunchback’s Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the challenge of Mass Politics to the rise of Fascism, 1882-1922, Praeger, Westport. Connecticut and London, 2000, for European History Quarterly, 32, ii, 2002, pp. 271-3.

60. Mario Morselli, Caporetto 1917: victory or defeat? F. Cass, London, 2001 for War in History, 10, 2003, pp. 245-7.

61. G. Guderzo, L’altra guerra: neofascisti, tedeschi, partigiani, popolo in una provincia padana, Pavia, 1943-1945, il Mulino, Bologna, 2002 for American Historical Review, April 2003, pp. 601-2.

62. Philip Morgan, Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945, Routledge, London, 2003, for English Historical Review, CXVIII, ii, 2003, pp. 731-3.

63. Perry Willson, Peasant women and politics in Fascist Italy: the Massaie Rurali. London and New York, Routledge, 2002 for Modern Italy, 8, ii, 2003, pp. 266-7.

64. David Womersley, Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: the historian and his reputation, Oxford, Clarendon press, 2002, for Journal of Religious History, 28, i, 2004, pp. 110-11.

65. Robert Mallett, Mussolini and the origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940 Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 266 pp for History: reviews of new books, 32, 2004, pp. 66-7.

66. Claudia Baldoli, Exporting Fascism: Italian Fascists and Britain's Italians in the 1930s, New York: Berg, 2003, for American Historical Review, April 2004, p. 604.

67. Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini: a new life London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003, for European History Quarterly, 34, i, 2004, pp. 118-121.

68. R.J. Samuels, Machiavelli's children: leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2003 for Journal of Japanese Studies, 30, i, 2004, pp. 245-9.

69. Claudio Fogu, The Historic Imaginary: politics of history in Fascist Italy Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003 for Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 9, iii, 2004, pp. 374-6.

70. Patrizia Palumbo, (ed.). A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2003 for International History Review, XXVII, i, 2005, pp. 95-6.

71. Richard Drake, Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003 for European Legacy, 10. i, 2005, pp. 84-5.

72. John Foot, Modern Italy, Houndmills and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 for European History Quarterly, 35, iv, 2005, pp. 590-1.

73. A.J. Gregor, Mussolini’s intellectuals: Fascist social and political thought, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005) for The Historian, 68, ii, 2006, pp. 387-8.

74. Borden W. Painter Jr., Mussolini’s Rome: rebuilding the Eternal city. (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) for History: reviews of new books, 34, ii, 2006, pp. 55-6.

75. David D. Roberts, The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: understanding the poverty of Great Politics, New York and London, Routledge, 2006, for Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 11, iv, 2006.

76. D. Medina Lasansky, The Renaissance perfected: architecture, spectacle, and tourism in Fascist Italy, University Park Penn., The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004 for European History Quarterly, 37, 2007, pp. 479-81.

77. Manuela A. Williams, Mussolini’s propaganda abroad: subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East 1935-1940, New York, Routledge, 2006 for American Historical Review, April 2007, pp. 475-6.

78. A. James Gregor, The search for Neofascism: the use and abuse of social science New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006 for International History Review, 2007, pp. 138-9.

79. Federica Oppioli, La “contrattazione” del combattente: lettere di soldati savignanesi dal fronte della Grande guerra (1915-1918), Editrice La Mandragora, Imola, 2005 for Journal of Modern History, 79, 3, 2007, pp. 692-4.

80. Dario Gaggio, In Gold We Trust: social capital and economic change in the Italian jewelry towns, Princeton University Press, 2007 for Modern Italy, 13, ii, 2008, pp. 204-5.

81. Denis Feeney, Caesar’s Calendar: ancient time and the beginnings of history, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007 for European Legacy, 13, vi, 2008, pp. ?

82. Macgregor Knox, To the threshold of power, 1922/33: origins and dynamics of the Fascist and Nationalist Dictatorships. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 for International History Review, XXX, iii, 2008, pp. 661-2.

83. Daniela Rossini, Woodrow Wilson and the American myth in Italy: culture, diplomacy and war propaganda. (translated by A. Shugaar). Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008 for International History Review, XXXI, iii, 2009 pp. 666-8.

84-5. Antonella Meniconi, La “Maschia Avvocatura”: istituzioni e professione forense in epoca fascista (1922-1943), Bologna, il Mulino, and Irene Stolzi, L’ordine corporativo: poteri organizzati e organizzazione del potere nella riflessione giuridica dell’Italia fascista, Milan, Giuffrè, 2007, for Journal of Modern History, 81, i, 2009.

86. Stuart Woolf (ed.), L’Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945-2000), Bologna: il Mulino, 2007 for English Historical Review, CXXIV, 2009, pp. 768-770.

87. John Pollard. Catholicism in Modern Italy: religion, society and politics since 1861. London and New York: Routledge, 2008 for Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 60, iv, 2009, p. 867.

88. Spencer M. Di Scala. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando: Italy. Haus Histories, 2010 for H-Diplo 24 May 2010 (http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/essays/PDF/Haus-Italy.pdf).

89. David Gilmour, The pursuit of Italy London: Allen Lane, xv and 446 pp., £25, ISBN 978-1-846-14251-2, review published under the title ‘One man’s pasta is another’s pizza’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 March 2011.

90. Emanuela Scarpellini, Material Nation: a consumer’s history of modern Italy Oxford University Press, 2011, Times Higher Education Supplement 10 March 2011.

91. I documenti diplomatici italiani 6th series, vol. III . Edited by Ministero degli affari esteri. Commissione per la pubblicazione dei documenti diplomatici, (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 2007 for English Historical Review, CXXVI, ii, 2011.

92. Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian Resistance New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 June 2011.

93. David Abulafia, The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean London: Allen Lane, 2011 for Times Higher Education Supplement, July 2011.

94. Alessandro Orsini, Anatomy of the Red Brigades: the religious mind-set of modern terrorists Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011 for Times Higher Education Supplement, July 2011.

95. L’entrata in guerra dell’Italia nel 1915. Edited by Johannes Hürter and Gian Enrico Rusconi. Bologna: il Mulino, 2010, English Historical Review, ?, 2011.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

I am about to retire but an example to UWA of a functioning international scholar. My career may be reviewed in my various public lectures etc over the last decades:
Conferences:

Over the years I have participated in the organisation or organised a number of international conferences. These include

19781st F. May Foundation conference on Italian culture and Italy today. (Guests included R. De Felice, G. Spini, G. Procacci) (Secretary)

19822nd F. May Foundation conference on Italian culture and Italy today. (Guests included S. Bertelli, U. Eco, E. Sori, A. Asor Rosa) (Secretary)

19863rd F. May Foundation conference on Italian culture and Italy today. (Guests included S. Romano, A. Asor Rosa, E. Serra, E. Gentile, G. Rosoli, R. Vecoli, R. Harney) (Secretary)

1989Revolution and its discontents: biennial conference of Australasian Association for Modern European History. (I, along with R.B. Rose, was the original founder of this body in 1969). (Guests included P. Melograni, J. Steinberg, S. Fitzpatrick, W. Gruner) (President)

1989Oral History of Australia conference (Guests included L. Passerini) (Organising committee)

1990War, internment and mass migration: the Italo-Australian experience 1940-90 conference (Guests included W. Douglass, R. and D. Ugolini, S. Mastellone).

Thereafter I have given the following conference papers:

February 1991 AAEH conference Wellington (NZ) 'Myth, language and Italian foreign policy'.

April 1991 'The perils of migration history' to CWAH conference, UWA.

July 1991 Session chair at F. May Foundation 4th international conference, University of Sydney.

July 1991 'The eclipse of Anti-Fascism in Italy', Sydney University History Department 100th anniversary conference.

September 1991 'The sorrow and the pity of the Fall of France (and the rise of French historiography)', HRC conference in Melbourne.

October 1991 Invited participant at 'Le origini del socialismo nell'Italia centrale' conference, Perugia.

October 1991 'Reading the Italo-Australian press on the mass migration of the 1950s', Rome Ministry of Culture and the Environment conference.

June 1992 invited participant, Past and Present conference on nationalism, St Catherine's, Oxford.

August 1992, ISSEI conference at Aalborg, Denmark on 'Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: a history of the Second World War, a comparative perspective', and chair of final session.

July 1993, speaker, respondent, chair, twice respondent, at the conference of the Australasian Association for European History, held at LaTrobe University, Melbourne.

September 1993, opening session chair, launched book, J. Milfull (ed.), Why Germany?, international conference on 'Rewriting the German past? Literary and historical interventions 1989-1993', University of Western Australia.

August 1994, (double) session chair at ISSEI conference at Graz and delivered paper on the topic 'European history in emigration: a legacy at an end?'

September 1994 paper to Australian Historical Association conference at UWA on 'European history and history in Australia'. I also chaired a session on Immigration and a panel on 'Heritage and Cultural nationalism: some Australian and British comparisons'. For the same conference I was part of a team which organised an exhibition of 'Santini in emigration' that is, of the devotional cards of saints and manifestations of the Madonna revered in certain Italian paesi and by emigrants from these paesi in Western Australia.

January 1995. I gave a paper to the Chicago 108th conference of the American Historical Association on 'Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: a comparative analysis of the historiography of the "long" Second World War'. In the same month I also gave versions of this paper to the History Department of the University of Toronto and in the lunch-time lecture series of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

January 1995. Two different papers at Columbus Centre, Toronto, and Multicultural History Society of Ontario on Italian immigration in Australia.

January 1995. Paper on 'Renzo De Felice, Silvio Berlusconi and the end of Anti-Fascism in Italy' to York University, Toronto.

May 1995 Keynote paper on 'The meaning of the Second World War' to 'Australia remembers' conference under the auspices of the History Institute in Melbourne.

April 1996 paper to special seminar series Central Queensland University on 'Film memories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism from Rome: open city to The night of the shooting stars'.

August 1996 paper to ISSEI conference Utrecht on 'Film memories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism from Rome: open city to The night of the shooting stars'.

September 1996 G. Castellano Memorial public lecture to the Dante Alighieri Society, Brisbane on 'Writing a history of Italy as an Australian'.

January 1997 I gave an invited lecture on 'Italy and the history of tourism' to the University of Venice's masters' programme on the Economia e Gestione del Turismo.

July 1997 I gave a paper on 'Glimpses of Venice between tourism and politics, 1911-1944' to the meeting of AAEH in Adelaide.

July 1997 I was an invited participant at the opening round table of the 'Europe in Australia' conference in Sydney, speaking on 'Mini-Italies and maxi-Europe; maxi-Italy and mini-Europes?'

January 1998 I gave an invited paper on 'Australia's Europe: a fading identity?' to 'L'Europa, i suoi margini e gli altri' conference at Assisi (with organisation by the Universities of Florence, Perugia and Oxford for a project originating at the Sorbonne).

February 1998 I gave an invited paper on 'Venice between fascism and tourism 1911-1945' to the staff seminar of the history department at the University of Nottingham.

March 1998 I gave an invited paper on 'Explaining "Auschwitz" after the end of history: the Italian case' to the Second European Social Science History conference at Amsterdam.

March 1998 invited participant Third Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar: theme: 'Heritage that hurts', Clare Hall, Cambridge

April 1998 I gave an invited paper to the Clare Hall, Cambridge, History Society on 'Venice and Italian Fascism'.

May 1998 I gave papers at the University of Bologna at Forlì on (i) 'Spiegando 'Auschwitz' dopo "il fine della storia": il caso italiano' May 1998; and (ii) 'Parigi e Dreyfus 1898: visto da un diplomatico italiano'

May 1998 I gave an invited paper to the London university seminar on the history of modern Italy held at the Institute of Historical Research on 'Venice between Fascism and tourism 1911-1945'.

July 1998 I gave an invited paper on 'Italian Fascism and golf' to the IIIrd World Scientific Congress on Golf at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland

August 1998 I gave an invited paper on 'Italy and Italies: identities and modernities: the case of the young Mussolini and his ghost' to the 5th ISSEI conference in Haifa, Israel.

September 1998 I gave an invited paper to the staff, post-graduate seminar of the Arts Faculty at SUNY (Purchase) on 'Venice between Fascism and tourism 1911-1945'.

November 1998 I gave a paper to the annual conference of the Australian Academy of Humanities at the University of Sydney on 'History, fascism, Europe and Australia after the end of history'.

December 1998 I gave a paper to the University of Bologna at Forlì on 'History at the end of the millennium: the case of Italy'.

May 1999 I gave an invited paper on 'The international implications of the war in Yugoslavia: past and future' to a public seminar on the crisis organised by Dr. Zlatko Srbis at QUT (Brisbane city campus).

June 1999 I gave a paper on 'The build-up to the crisis in the Balkans' to a public debate at the Holocaust Institute, Perth, WA.

July 1999 I presided over the XIIth Biennial conference of the Australasian Association for European History which was held at UWA on the theme 'Europe and its cultures: a century in the balance'. Twenty-four distinguished overseas historians attended as did the great majority of Australian Europeanists. I myself gave a paper on ‘Hypocrisy and corruption in Fascist Italy’.

January 2000 I was to be a commentator in a panel on Italian colonialism at the next meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago but I had to withdraw owing to illness.

March 2000 I gave a paper to the New York Italian history seminar based at Columbia University on 'First of his class? Approaching Benito Mussolini, 2000'.

March 2000 I gave a paper on ‘Reading Benito Mussolini’ to the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York.

April 2000 I gave a paper on ‘Reading Australian history’ to the international history seminar of the University of Bologna at Forlì.

May 2000 I joined a panel discussion at the Istituto Gramsci, Bologna on ‘Il fascismo tra storia e memoria’.

July 2001 I spoke at the AAEH conference at Auckland on ‘A Mussolini for the twentieth-first century?’, as well as being a panellist in a discussion on the historiography of dictatorship in contemporary Europe.

September 2001, I was the organiser of the History section for the Cassamarca Italianist conference at the HRC at ANU.

January 2002 I gave a paper on ‘Mussolini and power’ to the European social and cultural history seminar at the University of Oxford

February 2002 I gave a paper on ‘Mussolini and race’ to the postgraduate seminar of the History Department of the University of Sheffield

April 2002, I gave a paper to students at Balliol College, Oxford on ‘Mussolini and Italian historiography’.

May 2002 I gave a public lecture at Oxford University on ‘Mussolini, power and friendship’.

May 2002 I spoke to the University of London’s History seminar on ‘Mussolini’.

May 2002, I spoke at Reading University History seminar on ‘Mussolini and power’.

May 2002, I gave a special lunchtime lecture to Balliol college, Oxford on ‘A Sardinian track to Mussolini: a black swan song’.

June 2002 I gave a public lecture on ‘Mussolini, power and friendship’ to the Italian cultural group at the Union League, Philadelphia.

August 2002 with Sheila Fitzpatrick of the University of Chicago I spoke to the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia on ‘Political biography’.

August 2002 I spoke at the UWA Open Day on ‘History and biography’.

October 2002 I spoke to the Athenaeum club in Melbourne on ‘Mussolini as dictator’.

October 2002, I gave a paper at Ormond College, University of Melbourne on ‘Mussolini and “working towards the Italians”’.

October 2002, I spoke at a round table, Italian cultural Institute, Sydney on ‘Italian history as seen by an Australian’. (My colleague in the discussion was ex-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam).

November 2002, I spoke at the WA Literature Centre in Fremantle on ‘The nature of history’.

February 2003, I gave a paper at the British School in Rome on ‘Mussolini, Italy and the Italies’.

May 2003, I gave a public lecture on ‘Mussolini as dictator’ at Albany, W.A.

July 2003, I gave a paper on ‘War, totalitarianism and deep belief in Fascist Italy, 1935-43’ to the ACIS conference at U.W.A., where I was generally responsible for the History section.

July 2003, I gave a paper on ‘Everyday Mussolinism: friends, family, locality and violence in Fascist Italy’ to the A.A.E.H. conference at the University of Queensland.

November 2003, I presented the Spanish translations of my biography of Mussolini in Barcelona. Also speaking were Professors G. Jackson and J. Fontana.

November 2003, I spoke to the University of Chicago workshop on 'The history of everyday life' about the case of Fascist Italy.

February 2004, I spoke on 'Remembering and forgetting Mussolini and Fascist dictatorship in contemporary Italy' at Shuda University, Hiroshima.

February 2004, I spoke on 'Peace and war in the theory and practice of Fascist Italy' at Chiba University, Japan.

February 2004, I spoke on 'How "weak" was Mussolini's dictatorship?' to the Japanese Association for the study of contemporary Italy at the University of Tokyo.

March 2004, I acted as a commentator for a session at the Alcide De Gasperi e l'Europa memorial conference at the University of Trento.

April 2004, I ran a session for the staff of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on 'Italy, the Italies and national foreign policy'.

April 2004, I gave a lecture at the University of Verona to the staff and postgraduates students of the local university and that of Trento on 'Un Mussolinismo particolare? la vita di ogni giorno in Italia fascista'.

May 2004, I gave a series of 20 hours of undergraduate lectures at the University of Trento on 'Mussolini: l'uomo e il suo mondo'.

May 2004, I gave a research seminar to the Max Planck Institute at the University of Göttingen in Germany on 'Everyday Mussolinism'.

May 2004, I gave a public lecture at the University of Trento on 'Storia contemporanea e biografia: la vita di Benito Mussolini'.

June 2004, I gave a special lecture to the Oriani Foundation, Ravenna, on 'Mussolini e Hitler: dittatori pazzi e non pazzi'.

July 2004, I gave a keynote address to the meeting of the Australian Historical Association, held at the University of Newcastle, NSW, on 'Dreams of power, dreams of powerless: Italians' conceptions of Fascist totalitarianism'.

October 2004 to May 2005 I convened 8 papers for the Visiting Fellows colloquia, All Souls College, Oxford.

October 2004, I gave a paper to the research seminar, University of London on ‘Approaching Italians and their lives under a dictatorship’.

November 2004, I gave a paper to the Oxford graduate seminar on terrorism on the topic of ‘Italy and its terrorisms in the 1970s’.

February 2005, I gave the Robert A. Murray memorial lecture at Cambridge, UK, on ‘Everyday Mussolinism or manipulation from above and below in a totalitarian society.’

February 2005, I spoke at the Leicester Cultural eXchange [sic] on ‘Contemporary Italy remembers and forgets its past’.

March 2005, I gave a paper to the military history seminar convened by Prof. Hew Strachan at All Souls College, Oxford, on ‘”Rogueness” or realism in Fascist Italy: from pigeon fanciers to poison gas’.

March 2005, I gave a paper to the research seminar in modern European history, Oxford University convened by Dr. N. Stargardt and Prof. R. Gildea on ‘Everyday Mussolinism: writing the history of a totalitarian society’.

May 2005, I gave a paper on ‘Recent writing about the Fascist dictatorship’ at Oxford University to a combined universities postgraduate seminar.

May 2005, I gave a paper to the staff seminar of the University of Lancaster on ‘Everyday Fascism: Italians and their dictatorship.

September 2005, I addressed the Australian Institute of International Affairs (Perth branch) on ‘Bad but not mad: Benito Mussolini and his international dealings’.

October 2005, I gave a paper to the history seminar at Trinity College, Dublin on ‘Everyday Fascism: Italians and their dictatorship’.

October 2005, I lectured at Trinity College, Dublin on ‘Italian Fascism’.

October 2005, I gave a paper at the University of Strathclyde on ‘Enduring Fascism: Italians and their dictatorship’.

October 2005, I participated in a panel with Drs N. Stargardt, M. Conway and P. Wilson in launching my book on Mussolini’s Italy at the Institute of Historical Research in London.

March 2006, I spoke at the Western Australian Club on ‘Living dictatorship’.

March 2006, I gave a paper on ‘Enduring Fascism: Italians and their dictatorship’ to the Friends of the Reid Library, UWA.

March 2006, I gave a paper to the UWA history department on ‘The education of the young Richard: class, gender, ethnicity (and history) on Sydney’s North Shore, 1943-1966’.

March 2006, I gave a paper on ‘1970s terrorism: Italian style’ to the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia in a ‘Terrorism’ series that I co-chaired with Dr. M. Edele.

June 2006, I spoke to an international seminar on ‘Living totalitarianism’ at the University of Siena about the Italian case.

August 2006, I spoke to the WA History Council on ‘Doing Europe from Australia: an idiosyncratic historian’s journey’.

October 2006, I spoke to the staff/postgraduate seminar at the University of Sydney on ‘Living a totalitarian dictatorship’.

November 2006, I spoke to the staff/postgraduate seminar at the University of Western Australia on ‘Living a totalitarian dictatorship’.

January 2007, I chaired a two day Reading University conference on ‘the nature of fascism’ and contributed my own paper on ‘Dictatorship and fascism’.

March 2007, I spoke at Reading University’s 80th anniversary public lecture series on ‘Enduring Fascism’.

March 2007, I gave two lectures at Kennedy Hall in London on ‘Mussolini and his dictatorship’.

March 2007 I spoke at the Reading and Royal Holloway College symposium on the ‘Cult of the Duce’ about ‘Mussolini as dictator’.

April 2007, I was the keynote speaker to a workshop held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on ‘The nature and meaning of Italian Fascism’.

July 2007, I chaired the keynote speech by Prof. P. Corner (Siena) at the Cassamarca conference on Italian studies at Griffith University, Brisbane.

October 2007, I spoke to the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, on ‘Mussolini and modern dictatorship’ as the last lecture in a semester-long series that I chaired on ‘Dictators’ (speakers included A. Thein, N. Atkin, C.M. Clark, P, Monteath, J. Keene, J. Martens, M. Edele and R. Stuart).

December 2007, I spoke at Feltrinelli, Viale Libia, Rome, in presentazione of L’Italia di Mussolini (with Mimmo Franzinelli).

December 2007, I was interviewed in Rome for a video-documentary subsequently released in Italy under the title ‘Target Mussolini’ by Davide Savelli.

January 2008 I spoke to Schools History Day at Kennedy Hall in London on ‘The making of a dictator: Benito Mussolini 1883-1925’ and on ‘How to become a Fascist in Italy 1915-1925?’

February 2008, I spoke to the Historical Association, Reading, on ‘Benito Mussolini: model dictator’.

February 2008, I spoke to the seminar of the Classics Department, Reading University on ‘Liberal Rome and its histories’.

March 2008, I spoke to the staff post-graduate seminar of the History Department, Dundee University on ‘L’Anno Santo 1933-4: a Fascist Holy Year?’

April 2008, I spoke to the staff post-graduate seminar at University College, Dublin on ‘L’Anno Santo 1933-4: a Fascist Holy Year?’

April 2008, I chaired the keynote address by Professor Sergio Romano to the conference on ‘18 April 1948: Italy between continuity and change’ at Reading University and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in London.

April 2008 I spoke to the staff post-graduate seminar of the History Department, Reading University on ‘Rome and its histories: first thoughts’

May 2008 I spoke at the ‘ÈStoria’ convention at Gorizia on ‘Heroes for Mussolini’.

May 2008 I spoke at St. Antony’s College in Oxford on ‘Peripheral fascism: the locality under Fascist totalitarianism’.

November 2008, I spoke to the UWA staff postgraduate seminar on ‘Rome and its histories: a draft introduction’.

February 2009, I spoke at Oxford at the launch in the Taylorian of my edited Oxford Handbook of Fascism.

March 2009 I spoke to the American School in Paris on ‘Mussolini: dictator and the Italians’ and chaired a master class both on ‘The limits of the Risorgimento’ and on the nature of Fascist totalitarianism.

March 2009 I spoke to students at the King’s College School, Wimbledon on ‘How Fascist was Fascist Italy: reflections on a dictator who worked towards the Italians.’

March 2009 I spoke to the Modern European History seminar of the combined History departments of Glasgow University and the University of Strathclyde on ‘Rome and its histories’.

April 2009, I spoke to the Clio History society, University of Cambridge, on ‘The Fascist Holy Year’.

May 2009, I spoke on ‘Società italiana e il fascismo’ at Villanova d’Asti as part of a meeting associated with celebrations of the 64th anniversary of Liberation.

May 2009, I spoke to staff and students of the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia on ‘English approaches to Mussolini and Fascism’.

May 2009, With Elisa Signori of the University of Pavia, I spoke at a presentazione at the Aula Scarpa there of my edited Oxford handbook of fascism.

May 2009, I was interviewed about my interpretation of Mussolini by a film crew linked to the S. Gundle, C. Duggan, G. Pieri project on ‘the cult of the Duce’.

July 2009 I chaired a workshop at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia on ‘ Memories of Fascist dictatorship’ and gave my own paper on ‘Memories: the case of Rome’.

July 2009 I chaired a meeting of international historians with the Italian ‘community’ in Perth on the topic of ‘Italy today’.

July 2009 I gave a plenary paper to the 21st biennial AAEH conference in Adelaide on ‘Rome and its histories: a view from Australia’.

April 2010 I spoke at the concluding round-table at a conference held by the German Historical Institute in Rome on ‘“The New Fascist Man”: Planning and implementing a totalitarian project for Italian society 1922-1943’.

May 2010 I spoke at the memorial to Roger Absalom held at Paxton House in the Borders. My theme was ‘Absalom as historian of the Italian peasantry’.

May 2010 I spoke at a research forum at the Centre for East German studies of the University of Reading under the theme ‘Defeat or Liberation? 1945 in film’. My topic was ‘Rome: open city’ as liberation from a dangerous past’.

July 2010 I gave a paper on ‘Preparing an article for publication’ to a selected young audience at the Australian Historical Association conference at UWA. Thereafter I assisted two hopeful authors through publication with History Australia. I also chaired the keynote address by James Belich on ‘The settler revolution’, the accompanying commentary and debate.

September 2010 I have organised and shall provide the conclusion to a Workshop held by the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, on ‘The Cult of the Duce’. Other speakers will include D. Baratieri, C. Duggan, G. Finaldi, S. Gundle, M. Fuller, G. Pieri, C. Goeschel.

February 2011, I gave a public address at Kings College, London on ‘The Second World Wars and their clouded memories’.

March 2011, I spoke to the Schools History Day at Kennedy Hall in London on ‘Fascism: dead and alive’.

March 2011, I spoke to the staff postgraduate seminar at the University of Nottingham on ‘Rome and its histories: an eternal debate’.

March 2011, I gave the keynote opening public address to a workshop at the British School in Rome on ‘Fascist entanglements’. My paper was entitled ‘Mussolini as Sun God: an irradiating Duce?’

July 2011, I am the convenor of the XXIInd biennial conference of the Australasian Association for European History. Around thirty overseas scholars attended. There, my Whispering city: modern Rome and its histories and my collegue, Mark Edele’s Stalinist society (Oxford University Press) were launched by our old student, Dr. Frances Flanagan. The conference was officially opened by another old student, David Ritter, after a formal welcome to delegates from me with a talk entitled ‘AAEH and history; history and AAEH’. No Deans or other University administrators were invited.

October 2011, I am scheduled to give the Herford Memorial lecture at the University of Manchester on ‘Mussolini’s Rome and its eternal history wars’.

March 2012, I am scheduled to return to the American School in Paris to talk about Mussolini and Rome.

October 2012, with Joe Maiolo, I shall convene at Jesus College, Oxford, a workshop of contributors to volume II of the Cambridge University Press History of the Second World War.

November 2012, I am scheduled to address the Reform Club in London on ‘Italy’s path to World War I’.

Future research

i)A commissioned 17 000 word piece on ‘L’Italia fascista’ for a multi-volume Storia dell’Italia e il Mediterraneo (ed. G. Corni), Editore Salerno, Rome, submitted, in translation and due 2011.

ii)With Michal Bosworth, chapter on ‘UWA and the wider world’ for UWA history, due 2011.

iii)An 8000 word chapter on ‘Visionaries of expansion: Italy’s Second World War’ for T.W. Zeiler (ed.), A companion to the Second World War (Blackwells, due 2011; submitted September 2010).

iv)A general study of dictators, as well as of modern business and managerial evocations of ‘leadership’, under the title Dictators and the myth of leadership.

v)A chapter on ‘A literary Mussolini’ in Albrecht Koschorke (ed.), Poetry and tyranny (Konstanz University Press, 2011).

vi)I am to co-edit with Joe Maiolo, vol. II of the 3 vol. Cambridge University Press New History of the Second World War (due 2015).

vii)A book-length study on Refracted beauty: the history of Italian Venice.

viii)A book length study of Sex and the Italian dictator.

ix)‘Conclusion’ to C.J.H. Duggan, G. Pieri and S. Gundle (eds), The cult of the Duce (Manchester University Press, 2011) (submitted September 2010).

x)A chapter on ‘Benito Mussolini: template of the modern dictator’ for A. Mammone (ed.), Dictators (?Cambridge University Press, 2012).

xi)‘Preface’ to G. Cresciani, A history of Triestine Australia, due September 2011.

xii)‘The Second World Wars and their clouded memories’, History Australia, due December 2011.

Funding received

Grants:

Over the years, I have been the recipient of 9 grants (large or small) from the A.R.C. on the following projects:

i)Italian nationalism and foreign policy.
ii)Mass Italian migration to 1950s Australia.
iii)Tourism in Fascist Italy.
iv)A history of Italian Venice.
v)Mussolini: a new biography.
vi)with A/Prof. L. Baldassar, Drs. N. Harney and S. Iuliano to write a History of Italians in Western Australia.
vii)a new history of Italian Fascism.
viii)Rome and its histories
ix)With G. Finaldi and D. Baratieri, on The Cult of the Duce in the wider world.

I won an Italian government visiting research award in 1976; in 1987-8 Fremantle Council assisted my wife and me in our research of Fremantle's Italy. In 1993 I was the recipient of a grant from the UWA Division of Arts and Architecture for teaching relief in order to finish the MSS of Italy and the wider world. In 1996 I won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation fellowship for research in Venice.
My election to a SRF at Jesus College also admits me to college research funding while CUP is providing support for my (joint) editing of vol II of their history of the Second World War

Industrial relevance

None, I hope, except to critique the neoliberal hegemony.

Languages

Italian, reading French

Memberships

I don't bother tabulating these.

Honours and awards

In March 2002, my biography of Mussolini was named as Blackwells’ ‘History Book of the Month’; in September it was adopted by the US History Book club; and in October, it was the Italian journal Millenovecento’s ‘Book of the Month’. That same month, it was listed by the BBC History Magazine’s as one of its ‘Books of the Year’. In December it was similarly made one of The Australian’s non-fiction books of the year. In April 2003 I was awarded an Australian Centenary medal ‘for services to Australian society and the humanities in the study of history’. In June 2003 my biography of Mussolini won the WA Premier’s prize for non-fiction and the overall WA Premier's Book Award. It is the only work not directly about Australia so far to have been accorded the latter honour. In August 2003, Mussolini was on a short-list of three for the NSW Premier's History Prize (for works not about Australia). In October 2003, the book won the Queensland Premier's National History Prize. In February 2004, the book was placed on a short-list of 6 for the national biography prize in Australia. In October 2004, it similarly appeared on a shortlist of 6 for the Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History prize. In March 2006, Mussolini’s Italy earned a starred review in the New York Times (including photo). In June 2006, Mussolini’s Italy won the WA Premier’s non-fiction prize. In August 2006, it was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s General History Prize, which, in October, it won. In August it was also short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s history prize. That meant that, in total, the two Mussolini books had won five of Australia’s literary and historical prizes and been short-listed for five others.

Previous positions

Sydney university 1969-1986

Patents

None

Teaching

All over now, sadly (with the grief about the end of undergraduate and not postgraduate teaching).

Current external positions

chair at Reading (see above) but, from October 2011, Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford

Useful links

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New and noteworthy

see above

Current projects

see above

Research profile

Research profile and publications