Lucy Riall

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Lucy Riall (born January 4, 1962 ) is an Irish historian and expert on the history of the Risorgimento .

academic career

From 1980 to 1984 Riall studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1988 she received her PhD in history from Newnham College, University of Cambridge . From 1987 to 1990 she was a Research Fellow at the same institution. In 1990 Riall became a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex . In 1994 she moved to Birkbeck College at the University of London , where she worked as a lecturer until 1999 and as a senior lecturer until 2002. In 2002 she was promoted to Reader. In 2003/04 she was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris and at the Berlin College for Comparative History of Europe at the Free University of Berlin . In 2007 she became a professor at Birkbeck College. In 2007/08 she took on a visiting professorship at the Université Paris-Est , and in 2009/10 she was a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Albert Ludwigs University . Riall has been Professor of Comparative European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence since 2012 .

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In her book Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866 , published in 1998 , Riall explores the question of why the political and administrative mechanisms that the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia transferred to Sicily failed there and why the The island proved to be "ungovernable". The first two chapters deal with the prehistory from 1815 to 1849 and from 1849 to 1860. Then Riall analyzes the years of the founding of the nation state up to 1866, when a great revolt broke out in Palermo . Steven Hughes criticized her conclusion to condemn Camillo Benso von Cavour for not having supported the farmers, but called Riall's study "otherwise excellent". Raymond Grew reviewed the work positively as a "lucid, judicious study". Christopher Duggan described Riall's work as "important and valuable", but it arguably leaves more questions than answers.

Riall's book Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero , published in 2007, is methodologically based on the New Cultural History . The study combines a biography with an analysis of the origin of the myth Garibaldi during his lifetime, which Riall examines on the basis of numerous contemporary written and image sources. Alice A. Kelikian characterized the book in The American Historical Review as an "excellent and original study", Steven Hughes called the number of texts used by Riall "truly impressive" and described the book as "creative, complex and intelligent" as well as "clearly written" and "thought through in its analysis" ("[s] ophisticated in its analysis").

Riall's synthesis Risorgimento: the history of Italy from Napoleon to nation state , published in 2009 in a revised and revised form, is considered by Norma Bouchard (2011) to be “an important contribution to the history and historiography of the restoration, unification and its problematic aftermath” (“an important contribution to the history and historiography of the Restoration, Unification, and its troubled aftermath "). According to Rainer Behring, Riall succeeded with the book a “sovereign presentation of the current research on the Risorgimento”, her own interpretation presented therein is “not very spectacular”, but offers “a compact synthesis based on the latest research”.

In her micro-historical book Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town , published in 2013, Riall uses archival material to treat the history of the Sicilian city of Bronte from 1799 to 1860. Riall largely describes the tensions and conflicts between British representatives and the local elites of the City that in 1799 gave Ferdinand , the Bourbon King of Sicily, as an independent duchy to the British Admiral Horatio Nelson . The seventh chapter deals with the famous revolt in Bronte that broke out in August 1860 during Giuseppe Garibaldi's procession of a thousand : peasants in the city killed at least sixteen landowners and burned their houses. Nino Bixio , Garibaldi's “right-hand man”, put down the revolt with harshness by arresting hundreds of suspicious peasants and carrying out summary executions. Nelson Moe praised the book as a "fascinating and innovative study", Dario Gaggio as "agile and astute" ("agile and astute").

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Monographs

  • The Italian Risorgimento: state, society, and national unification. Routledge, London 1994, ISBN 0415057752 .
  • Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998.
    • La Sicilia e l'unificazione italiana. Politica liberale e potere locale (1815–1866). Einaudi, Turin 2004, ISBN 88-061-6071-0 .
  • Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero. Yale University Press, 2007.
  • Risorgimento: the history of Italy from Napoleon to nation state. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke / New York 2009. (Revised and expanded version of "The Italian Risorgimento" (1994))
  • Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 9780199646494 .

Editorships

  • (with David Laven) Napoleon's Legacy: problems of government in Restoration Europe. Berg, Oxford / New York 2000, ISBN 1859732445 .
  • (with Silvana Patriarca) The Risorgimento Revisited: Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2012, ISBN 978-1349320332 .
  • (with Valeria Babini and Chiara Beccalossi) Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789–1914. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015, ISBN 978-1349484775 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile on the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies website , accessed on April 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae (PDF; 408 kB) at the European University Institute , accessed on April 14, 2020. (English)
  3. ↑ Steven Hughes: [Review of Lucy Riall: Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998]. In: The American Historical Review , Volume 105 (2000), pp. 309 f. ( JStor ), here p. 310.
  4. ^ Raymond Grew: [Review of Lucy Riall: Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998]. In: The Journal of Modern History , Volume 72 (2000), pp. 1044 f.
  5. ↑ Christopher Duggan: [Review of Lucy Riall: Sicily and the unification of Italy: liberal policy and local power, 1859-1866. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998]. In: The English Historical Review , 114 (1999), pp. 1346 f.
  6. ↑ Alice A. Kelikian: [Review of Lucy Riall: Garibaldi: invention of a hero. Yale University Press, 2007]. In: The American Historical Review , Volume 113 (2008), pp. 1263 f. ( JStor ), here p. 1263.
  7. ↑ Steven Hughes: [Review of Alfonso Scirocco: Garibaldi: Citizen of the World, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2007 and Lucy Riall: Garibaldi: invention of a hero. Yale University Press, 2007]. In: The Journal of Modern History , Volume 81 (2009), pp. 708-711 ( JStor ), here p. 709.
  8. ↑ Norma Bouchard: [Review of Lucy Riall: Risorgimento: the history of Italy from Napoleon to nation state. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009]. In: Italica , Volume 88 (2011), pp. 664-667 ( JStor ), here p. 667.
  9. ^ Rainer Behring: [Review of Lucy Riall: Risorgimento. The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation-State, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke / New York 2009 and Francesco Traniello / Gianni Sofri: The long way to the nation. The Italian Risorgimento, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012]. In: Archive for Social History ( online ; PDF; 190 kB), Volume 53 (2013).
  10. ↑ Nelson Moe: [Review of Lucy Riall: Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 9780199646494 ]. In: The American Historical Review , Volume 119 (2014), pp. 629 f. ( JStor )
  11. ↑ Dario Gaggio: [Review of Lucy Riall: Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 9780199646494 ]. In: The Journal of Modern History , Volume 87 (2015), pp. 206 f. ( JStor )
personal data
SURNAME Riall, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish modern historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1962