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Lucy Riall is a writer and historian, specialising in the social, political and cultural history of modern Italy. Educated at LSE and Newnham College, Cambridge, she has held academic posts in Paris, Berlin and the USA, and is currently Professor of Modern European History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck University, London. Her books include The Italian Risorgimento (1994) and Sicily and the Unification of Italy (1998), both of which have been translated into Italian. She also co-edited Napoleon’s Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe (2000) with David Laven. She has had numerous articles and reviews published in academic journals, and is currently Editor of European History Quarterly, as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, and on the Publications Advisory Committee for Papers of the British School of Rome.
Lucy’s latest book is a major work on Guiseppe Garibaldi entitled Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero, published simultaneously by Yale University Press and Laterza in 2007. She has also recently contributed to Quercus’s Great Commanders series. Her Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State will be published by Palgrave in 2008.
Recent books:
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (Yale UP: 2007)
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