Frank J. Coppa

Frank J. Coppa (born July 18, 1937 in New York City ) is an American historian.

Life

Frank J. Coppa attended Brooklyn College (BA 1960) and the Catholic University of America , where he received his doctorate in 1966 with the dissertation Giolitti and Industrial Italy: An Analysis of the Interrelationship Between Giolitti's Economic Policy and His Political Program . In 1964/65 he conducted research in Italy on a Fulbright grant .

Coppa taught from 1965 at St. John's University in New York , where he became an associate professor in 1970 and a professor in 1979. In 2010 he retired. Coppa did research on a number of Italian politicians such as Mazzini , Antonelli , Cavour and Garibaldi . He wrote a biography of Columbus . He edited the Encyclopedia of the Vatican and the Papacy and revised all articles on the Popes and Anti-Popes for the online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the articles of all the Popes from the Renaissance to Gregory XVI. for the Catholic Encyclopedia . He wrote several pope biographies and took a stand in the anti-Semitism debate in the Catholic Church. Coppa was recognized by the American Catholic Historical Association for his research.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Planning, Protectionism, and Politics in Liberal Italy: Economics and Politics in the Giolittian Age . Catholic University of America Press, 1971
• Camillo di Cavour . Twayne Publishers, 1973
• Pope Pius IX : Crusader in a Secular Age . Boston: Twayne, 1979
• Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs . New York: State University of New York Press, 1990
• The Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence . Longman, 1992
• The Modern Papacy Since 1789 . Addison-Wesley Longman, 1998
• The Papacy Confronts the Modern World . Warriors Pub., 2003
• The Papal Response to Nazi and Fascist Anti-Semitism: From Pius XI to Pius XII . In: Joshua D. Zimmerman (Ed.): Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule . Cambridge: Cambridge Press / NY, 2005, pp. 265-286. The book contains a short biography on p. XIVf.
• The Papacy, the Jews and the Holocaust: From Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism to the Third Millennium . Catholic University of America Press, 2006
• Politics and the Papacy in the Modern World . Praeger, 2008
• The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII : Between Diplomacy and Morality . New York: Peter Lang, 2011
• The Life and Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: Between History and Controversy . Catholic University of America Press, 2013
• The Papacy in the Modern World: A Political History . Reaction Books, 2014

Co-author and editor

• (Mhrsg.): From Vienna to Vietnam: War and Peace in the Modern World . Wm. C. Brown Book Company, 1969
• (Mhrsg.): Cities in Transition: From the Ancient World to Urban America . Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1974
• (Ed.): Religion in the Making of Western Man . St. John's University Press, 1974
• (Mhrsg.): The Immigrant Experience in America . Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976
• (Ed.): Screen and Society: The Impact of Television Upon Aspects of Contemporary Civilization . Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1979
• (Mhrsg.): Technology in the Twentieth Century . Kendall / Hunt Publishing Company, 1983
• (Ed.): Dictionary of Modern Italian History . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985
• (Ed.): Studies in Modern Italian History: From the Risorgimento to the Republic . New York: Peter Lang, 1986
• (Mhrsg.): Modern Italian History: An Annotated Bibliography . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990
• (Mhrsg.): The Formation of the Italian Republic: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Postwar Italy . New York: Peter Lang, 1993
• (Ed.): Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations With Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler . Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1999
• (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Vatican and the Papacy . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999
• (Ed.): The great popes through history. To encyclopedia . Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002, ISBN 0-313-32417-4
• (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators: From Napoleon to the Present . New York: Peter Lang, 2006, ISBN 0-8204-5010-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank J. Coppa in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Frank J. Coppa , at St. John's University