Professor Richard Bosworth
Areas of interest
Late Modern European history, historiography, migration history. Research interests include twentieth century Italian social and political history, historiography, migration history.
Selected publications
a) books
1.Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Destruction of Liberal Italy, 1900-1945, Rigby, Adelaide, 1973.
2.Italy, the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War, Cambridge U.P., 1979, paperback edition, 2005.
3.(with G. Cresciani, eds), Altro Polo:a Volume of Italian Studies, F. May Foundation, Sydney, 1979.
4.Italy and the Approach of the First World War, Macmillan, London, 1983.
5.(With G. Rizzo, eds), Altro Polo: a Study of Intellectuals and Ideas in Contemporary Italy, F. May Foundation, Sydney, 1983, including my chapter on 'Italian foreign policy and its historiography' and my introduction.
6.(With J. Wilton), Old Worlds and New Australia: a History of Non-British Migration to Australia Since the Second World War, Penguin, Ringwood, 1984, (3rd ed., 1987).
7.La politica estera dell'Italia giolittiana, Riuniti, Rome, 1985 (translation of Italy the Least of the Great Powers).
8.(With M. Melia) (eds), Aspects of Ethnicity: Studies in Western Australian History, Vol. XII, Nedlands, 1991, including my 'Preface'; my 'Luigi Mistrorigo and La Stampa Italiana: the strange story of a Fascist journalist in Perth' and (with M. Melia) my 'The Italian feste of Western Australia and the myth of the universal church'.
9.(with S. Romano) (eds), La politica estera italiana, 1861-1985, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1991, including my 'Mito e linguaggio nella politica estera italiana'.
10.(with R. Ugolini) (eds), War, internment and mass migration: the Italo-Australian experience 1940-1990,Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Rome, 1992 including my 'Introduction', and my (ed.) 'Oral histories of internment'.
11.Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: history writing and the Second World War 1945-1990, Routledge, London, 1993 (paperback edition, 1994).
12(with M. Bosworth), Fremantle's Italy, Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Rome, 1993.
13.Italy and the wider world 1860-1960, Routledge, London, 1996.
14.An annotated translation (with M. Melia) of Leopoldo Zunini's L'Australia attuale (Western Australia as it is today, 1906) University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1997.The book also includes my introductory paper 'Leopoldo Zunini and Liberal Italy'.
15.The Italian dictatorship: problems and perspectives in the interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism, E. Arnold, London, OUP, New York, 1998 (paperback and hardcover).
16.(with Patrizia Dogliani eds), Italian Fascism: history, memory and representation, Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, London/New York, 1999 including my chapter 'Film memories of Fascism' and an 'Introduction' co-written with Dogliani; I also translated the five chapters in the book written by Italian authors.
17.Mussolini, Arnold, London, OUP, New York, 2002.
18.Mussolini, Barcelona, Peninsula, 2003 (Spanish translation of above).
19.Mussolini, Milan, A. Mondadori, 2004 (Italian translation of above; paperback 'Oscar' edition, 2005).
20.Mussolini's Italy: life under the dictatorship 1915-1945, Allen Lane/Penguin, London, 2005; (US edition, The Penguin Press, New York, 2006).
21.Nationalism (Pearson, London, 2007).
22.L'Italia di Mussolini 1915-1945 (Italian translation of Mussolini's Italy) Mondadori, Milan, 2007 (paperback edition, 2009).
23.The Oxford handbook on fascisms, Oxford University Press, 2009. In this collection of 31 essays by international contributors, I myself wrote the Introduction and a chapter on 'Dictators strong or weak? The model of Benito Mussolini' and I joined with Nathan Stoltzfus in a chapter on 'Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy'. I also translated four chapters by the Italian contributors Canali, Corni, Dogliani and Franzinelli.