Bibliography of Italy

This bibliography of Italy is a list of books in the English language on the general topic of Italy.

Surveys

 * Coppa, Frank J. ed. Dictionary of Modern Italian History (1985)
 * Di Scala, Spencer M. Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present. (1998) 436pp online edition
 * Domenico, Roy. The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture (2002) online edition
 * Duggan, Christopher. The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 (2008) excerpt and text search
 * Hearder, Henry, and D. P. Waley; A Short History of Italy: From Classical Times to the Present Day (1963) online edition
 * Holmes, George. The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (2001) excerpt and text search
 * Killinger; Charles L. The History of Italy (2002) online edition
 * Smith, Denis Mack. Modern Italy: A Political History (1997)

Ancient

 * Cary, M. and H. H. Scullard. A History of Rome: Down to the Reign of Constantine (3rd ed. 1996), 690pp
 * Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome (2005) 400pp
 * Grant, Michael. History of Rome (1997)
 * Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (2006) 572pp
 * Scullard, H. H. A History of the Roman World 753–146 BC (5th ed. 2002), 596pp
 * Zuppardo, Emanuele and Piccolo, Salvatore (Günther Hölbl preface). Terra Mater: Sulle Sponde del Gela greco, Gela, Betania (2005), 175pp

Medieval

 * Abulafia, David. Italy in the Central Middle Ages: 1000–1300 (Short Oxford History of Italy) (2004) excerpt and text search
 * Bullough, Donald A. Italy and Her Invaders (1968)
 * Herlihy, David, Robert S. Lopez, and Vsevolod Slessarev, eds., Economy, Society and Government in Medieval Italy (1969)
 * Hyde, J. K. Society and Politics in Medieval Italy (1973)
 * La Rocca, Cristina. Italy in the Early Middle Ages: 476–1000 (Short Oxford History of Italy) (2002) excerpt and text search
 * Smith, Denis Mack. Medieval Sicily, 800–1713 (1968)
 * Tobacco, Giovanni. The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Power (1989)
 * Wickham, Chris. Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000 (1981)

Renaissance

 * Kohl, Benjamin G. and Allison Andrews Smith, eds. Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance (1995).
 * Najemy, John M. Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300–1550 (The Short Oxford History of Italy) (2005) excerpt and text search
 * White, John. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250–1400 (1993)
 * White, John. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250–1400 (1993)

Early modern

 * Cochrane, Eric. Italy, 1530–1630 (1988) online edition
 * Carpanetto, Dino, and Giuseppe Ricuperati. Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685–1789 (1987) online edition
 * Marino, John A. Early Modern Italy: 1550–1796 (Short Oxford History of Italy) (2002) excerpt and text search
 * Roberts, J.M. "Italy, 1793–1830" in C.W. Crawley, ed. The New Cambridge Modern History: IX. War and Peace in an age of upheaval 1793–1830 (Cambridge University Press, 1965) pp 439–461. online
 * Venturi, Franco. Italy and the Enlightenment (1972)
 * Woolf, Stuart. A History of Italy, 1700–1860 (1988)

Risorgimento

 * Beales. D.. and E. Biagini, The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy (2002)
 * Clark, Martin. The Italian Risorgimento (Routledge, 2014)
 * Collier, Martin, Italian Unification, 1820–71 (Heinemann, 2003); textbook, 156 pages
 * Farmer, Alan. "How was Italy Unified?", History Review 54, March 2006
 * Hearder, Harry. Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790–1870 (1983) excerpt
 * Holt, Edgar. The Making of Italy 1815–1870, (1971).
 * Laven, David. Restoration and Risorgimento: Italy 1796–1870 (2012)
 * Pearce, Robert, and Andrina Stiles. Access to History: The Unification of Italy 1789–1896 (4th rf., Hodder Education, 2015), textbook. excerpt
 * Riall, Lucy. Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State (2009)
 * Riall, Lucy. The Italian Risorgimento: State, Society, and National Unification (Routledge, 1994) online
 * Riall, Lucy. Garibaldi: Invention of a hero (Yale UP, 2008).
 * Ridley, Jasper. Garibaldi (1974), a standard biography.
 * Smith, Denis Mack. Cavour (1985)
 * Smith, Denis Mack. Victor Emanuel, Cavour, and the Risorgimento (Oxford UP, 1971)
 * Stiles, A. The Unification of Italy 1815–70 (2nd edition, 2001)
 * old interpretations but useful on details; vol 1 goes to 1859; volume 2 online covers 1859–62
 * Stiles, A. The Unification of Italy 1815–70 (2nd edition, 2001)
 * old interpretations but useful on details; vol 1 goes to 1859; volume 2 online covers 1859–62

Since 1860

 * Alexander, J. The hunchback's tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and liberal Italy from the challenge of mass politics to the rise of fascism, 1882-1922 (Greenwood, 2001).
 * Burgwyn, H. James. Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918-1940 (Greenwood, 1997),
 * Cannistraro, Philip V. ed. Historical Dictionary of Fascist Italy (1982)
 * Chabod, Federico. Italian Foreign Policy: The Statecraft of the Founders, 1870-1896 (Princeton UP, 2014).
 * Clark, Martin. Modern Italy: 1871–1982 (1984, 3rd edn 2008)
 * De Grand, Alexander. Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882–1922 (2001)
 * De Grand, Alexander. Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development (1989)
 * Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed. 1922) comprises the 11th edition plus three new volumes 30-31-32 that cover events 1911–1922 with very thorough coverage of the war as well as every country and colony. Included also in 13th edition (1926) partly online
 * full text of vol 30 ABBE to ENGLISH HISTORY online free
 * Gilmour, David.The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples (2011). excerpt
 * Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy, 1943–1988 (2003). excerpt and text search
 * Lyttelton, Adrian. Liberal and Fascist Italy: 1900–1945 (Short Oxford History of Italy) (2002) excerpt and text search
 * McCarthy, Patrick ed. Italy since 1945 (2000).
 * Overy, Richard. The road to war (4th ed. 1999, ISBN 978-0-14-028530-7), covers 1930s; pp 191–244.
 * Toniolo, Gianni. An Economic History of Liberal Italy, 1850–1918 (1990)
 * Toniolo, Gianni, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy since Unification (Oxford University Press, 2013) 785 pp. online review; another online review
 * Williams, Isobel. Allies and Italians under Occupation: Sicily and Southern Italy, 1943–45 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). xiv + 308 pp. online review
 * Zamagni, Vera. The Economic History of Italy, 1860–1990 (1993) 413 pp. ISBN 0-19-828773-9.
 * Toniolo, Gianni, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy since Unification (Oxford University Press, 2013) 785 pp. online review; another online review
 * Williams, Isobel. Allies and Italians under Occupation: Sicily and Southern Italy, 1943–45 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). xiv + 308 pp. online review
 * Zamagni, Vera. The Economic History of Italy, 1860–1990 (1993) 413 pp. ISBN 0-19-828773-9.

Historiography

 * Boardman, Jonathan. Umbria: A Cultural History (Signal Books; 2012). Charts a complex history of literature, religion, art, migration, and industry.
 * Foot, John. Italy's Divided Memory (Palgrave Macmillan; 262 pages; 2010). Describes regional, political, and other divisions in Italian public memory of history.
 * Pasquino, Gianfranco. "Political History in Italy," Journal of Policy History (2009) 21#3 pp 282–97, on 20th century historians; covers Italian politics after World War II, and works of Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia. Also discusses rise of the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. summary
 * Rao, Anna Maria. "Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography." in Ute Planert, ed., Napoleon's Empire (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). pp 84–97.
 * Foot, John. Italy's Divided Memory (Palgrave Macmillan; 262 pages; 2010). Describes regional, political, and other divisions in Italian public memory of history.
 * Pasquino, Gianfranco. "Political History in Italy," Journal of Policy History (2009) 21#3 pp 282–97, on 20th century historians; covers Italian politics after World War II, and works of Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia. Also discusses rise of the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. summary
 * Rao, Anna Maria. "Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography." in Ute Planert, ed., Napoleon's Empire (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). pp 84–97.
 * Pasquino, Gianfranco. "Political History in Italy," Journal of Policy History (2009) 21#3 pp 282–97, on 20th century historians; covers Italian politics after World War II, and works of Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia. Also discusses rise of the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. summary
 * Rao, Anna Maria. "Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography." in Ute Planert, ed., Napoleon's Empire (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). pp 84–97.
 * Rao, Anna Maria. "Napoleonic Italy: Old and New Trends in Historiography." in Ute Planert, ed., Napoleon's Empire (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). pp 84–97.

Geography and environment

 * Armiero, Marco, and Marcus Hall, eds. Nature and History in Modern Italy (Ecology and History Series) (Ohio University Press, 2010) 295 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1916-8  online review
 * Arnone Sipari, Lorenzo, ed. Scritti scelti di Erminio Sipari sul Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo (1922–1933) (Nature and Parks series) (Trento, 2011) 349 pp. ISBN 978-88-97372-05-9
 * Delano-Smith, Catherine. Western Mediterranean Europe: A Historical Geography of Italy, Spain, and Southern France Since the Neolithic (1980)

Politics

 * Discusses political historians such as Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia, and studies of Fascism, the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. excerpt
 * Discusses political historians such as Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia, and studies of Fascism, the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. excerpt
 * Discusses political historians such as Silvio Lanaro, Aurelio Lepre, and Nicola Tranfaglia, and studies of Fascism, the Italian Communist party, the role of the Christian Democrats in Italian society, and the development of the Italian parliamentary Republic. excerpt

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