Eugenio Biagini
Encyclopedia
Prof. Eugenio F. Biagini is an Italian
historian, specialising in British, Irish and Italian liberalism
.
He completed his bachelors' degree at the University of Pisa
before completing his doctorate at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
. In the early 1990s he was based at Yale University
, and in 1995 he moved to Cambridge University, where he is currently a Reader in Modern British and European History, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College
He is best known for his work in free trade
economics and ideology, the Italian risorgimento, Irish national identity, and the religious dimension of popular radicalism in the nineteenth century.
The Gladstone Club has said: "Of the many biographies of Gladstone his is the most concise but also arguably the most profound."
Italy
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historian, specialising in British, Irish and Italian liberalism
Liberalism
Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
.
He completed his bachelors' degree at the University of Pisa
University of Pisa
The University of Pisa , located in Pisa, Tuscany, is one of the oldest universities in Italy. It was formally founded on September 3, 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, although there had been lectures on law in Pisa since the 11th century...
before completing his doctorate at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, also known in Italian as Scuola Normale , is a public higher learning institution in Italy. It was founded in 1810, by Napoleonic decree, as a branch of the École Normale Supérieure of Paris...
. In the early 1990s he was based at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, and in 1995 he moved to Cambridge University, where he is currently a Reader in Modern British and European History, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance...
He is best known for his work in free trade
Free trade
Under a free trade policy, prices emerge from supply and demand, and are the sole determinant of resource allocation. 'Free' trade differs from other forms of trade policy where the allocation of goods and services among trading countries are determined by price strategies that may differ from...
economics and ideology, the Italian risorgimento, Irish national identity, and the religious dimension of popular radicalism in the nineteenth century.
The Gladstone Club has said: "Of the many biographies of Gladstone his is the most concise but also arguably the most profound."
Works
- Currents of Radicalism. Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850-1914 (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
- ‘Currents of radicalism, 1850-1914’ (with Alistair J. Reid), pp. 1-21.
- ‘Popular Liberals, Gladstonian finance, and the debate on taxation, 1860-1874’, pp. 134-162.
- Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone. 1860-1880 (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
- Citizenship and Community. Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931 (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
- ‘Introduction: Citizenship, liberty and community’, pp. 1-19.
- ‘Liberalism and direct democracy: John Stuart Mill and the model of ancient Athens’, pp. 21-44.
- Gladstone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
- ‘Exporting ‘Western & Beneficent Institutions’: Gladstone and Empire, 1880-1885’, in David Bebbington and Roger Swift (eds.), Gladstone Centenary Essays (Liverpool University Press, 2000), pp. 202-224.
- The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy (with Derek Beales) (Longmans, 2002).
- British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- ‘Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953’, in E. H. H. Green and D. M. Tanner (eds.), The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 212-246.
- Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 (editor with C. A. Bayly) (Oxford University Press, 2008).
- ‘Introduction’ (with C. A. Bayly), pp. 1-11.
- ‘Mazzini and Anticlericalism: The English Exile’, pp. 145-166.
- A History of European Democratic Thought (with Salvo Mastellone) (Longmans, 2011).