Paul Ginsborg and the Historiography of Modern Italy

John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian, University of Bristol, UK. ​Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Writing the History of Post-war Italy.- 2. The Reception of Paul Ginsborg’s History of Contemporary Italy.- 3. Ginsborg, Gambetta and the Mafia.- 4. Novelists, Historians and the Memory of the Resistance.- 5. Italy in the Present Tense: A Round Table Discussion with Paul Ginsborg, Perry Anderson, Simon Parker and John Foot on Paul Ginsborg’s Italy and Its Discontents.- Part 2: Political Conflict and Its Legacies.- 6. Rebellion, Romanticism and Narrative Construction in Luigi Pastro's Prison Memoirs.- 7. Reflections on Studying Revolutions: Venice 1848 from the Perspective of 1968.- 8. Remembering Berlinguer: Mourning, Nostalgia and the Left.- 9. On the Visual Memory of the Resistance in Florence.- Part 3: Family, Culture and Consumption.- 10. Children as Consumers: The Market, Families, and Children in Italy, 1900–1990.- 11. Popular Music and the New Left in Italy during the 1970s.- 12. ‘The Personal is Political’: Micro-history of a Slogan and Its Role with the Italian Radical Psychiatry Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.- Part 4: Paul Ginsborg as Activist and Teacher.- 13. Paul Ginsborg, un maestro.- 14. Paul Ginsborg on his Life and on 1968. Unpublished Oral History Interview 1984/5. Carried out in Cambridge by Ronald Fraser.-15. A Bibliography of the Works of Paul Ginsborg. Compiled by Stuart Oglethorpe.- 16. Index.