Richard James Boon Bosworth

Richard James Boon Bosworth , also RJB Bosworth or Richard Bosworth (* 1943 in Sydney ), is an Australian historian with a focus on Italian fascism .

Bosworth studied at the University of Sydney , where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. From there he moved to St John's College at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate. He was appointed to the University of Sydney , where he taught from 1969 to 1986, and then taught from 1987 to 2011 until his retirement at the University of Western Australia . He also taught as a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College of the University of Oxford and became a professor at the University of Reading in 2007 until 2012.

Bosworth is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities .

Works (selection)

• Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Destruction of Liberal Italy, 1900–1945 , Rigby, 1973.
• Italy and the approach of the First World War , St. Martin's Press, 1983.
• with Patrizia Dogliani: Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation , Palgrave Macmillan, 1989, 1999.
• with Romano Ugolini: War, Internment and Mass Migration. The Italo-Australian Experience, 1940–1990 , Gruppo editoriale internazionale, 1992.
• Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima. History Writing and the Second World War 1945–1990 , Psychology Press, 1993.
• The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism. Oxford University Press, New York 1998.
• Mussolini , 2002, Bloomsbury reprint, 2014.
• Italy the Least of the Great Powers. Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War , Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Mussolini's Italy. Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship , Penguin, 2006, 2007.
• Nationalism , Pearson, 2007, Routledge reprint, 2013.
• The Oxford Handbook of Fascism , Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Whispering City. Rome and its histories , Yale University Press, 2011.
• Italy and the Wider World: 1860-1960 , Routledge, 1996, 2005, 2013.
• Italian Venice. A History , Yale University Press, 2014.
• Claretta: Mussolini's Last Lover . Yale University Press, 2016.

Web links

• Professor Richard Bosworth , Jesus College, Oxford
• Staff Profile: Professor Richard Bosworth , University of Reading