Lucy Riall
Lucy Riall is an Irish historian.[1] She was a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and is currently a professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.[2]
Riall studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly.[3]
Among her many prestigious awards are a Visiting Professorship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and a Senior Fellowship at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Advanced Study.
One of the leading experts on modern Italy, Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily. Several of her books treat the history of the Risorgimento; Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (2007) examined the popular cult of Giuseppe Garibaldi as a global cultural phenomenon.[4]
Riall speaks fluent Italian and she appears frequently on Italian TV and radio (RAI) as well as on the BBC.
Works
- The Italian Risorgimento: state, society, and national unification, Routledge, 1994
- Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866, Oxford University Press, 1998
- (ed. with David Laven) Napoleon’s Legacy: problems of government in Restoration Europe, Berg, 2000
- Garibaldi: invention of a hero, Yale University Press, 2007 (Italian translation, Laterza, 2007).
- Risorgimento: the history of Italy from Napoleon to nation state, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 (Italian translation, Donzelli 2009).
- "Martyr Cults in Nineteenth-Century Italy," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 82, No. 2, June 2010
References
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- ↑ Reviews: Roland Sarti H-Net review October 2007; David Gilmour "The lion or the donkey?" Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Spectator, 10 May 2007; Tim Parks, "The Insurgent: Garibaldi and his enemies", The New Yorker, 9 July 2007; Alexander Stille "The Hero Machine", The New Republic, 16 August 2007
External links
- EUI profile
- Birkbeck homepage
- Garibaldi: the patriot as global hero
- Works by or about Lucy Riall in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Italian Radio piece by Lucy Riall on Italian unification
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