Mussolini's Foreign Policy

John Gooch, University of Leeds.

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Mussolini, the Armed Forces & War: 1920-1940

John Gooch, University of Leeds.

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Critical Reading for the study of Modern Italian/Fascist history

Recommended by Dr. Kate Ferris, Lecturer in History, University of St. Andrews


John Foot 'Modern Italy' (Macmillan, 2003)

Lucy Riall: either 'Risorgimento. The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State' (London, Palgrave, 2008)

Lucy Riall: 'Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero' (New Haven CT & London, Yale University Press, 2007)

RJB Bosworth 'Mussolini‚s Italy: Life under the Dictatorship 1915-1945' (Allen Lane, 2005)

Emilio Gentile 'The Sacralisation of Politics in Fascist Italy' (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1996)

Paul Ginsborg 'A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988' (Penguin, 1990)

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The First World War: The Central Powers

John Gooch, University of Leeds.

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New Reading Lists

An update on new resources available onsite:

James Harris has added timelines, further reading and synopses to his podcasts on Stalin's Economic Transformation of the USSR & Stalin's Rise to Power.

Similarly, Alastair Kocho-Williams has added further reading an information to his podcast pages: Russia, Germany & the Alliance System, 1872-1914 & Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1917-1924.

Natalie Mears (University of Durham) has provided an extensive reading list focused upon the Tudors.

Kate Ferris (University of Durham) has put together some introductory reading for the study of Modern Italy and, specifically, Mussolini.

Gaby Treglia (University of Durham) has provided a reading list to aid the study of Native American History.

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