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Marta Petrusewicz
 
Ph.D. University of Bologna, Italy
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Hunter College
Office phone:212-772-5486
Email: mpetruse@hunter.cuny.edu
Field of Scholarship

Modern European Social and Economic History; 19th Century Italy; Comparative European Peripheries ; Comparative History

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

Un sogno irlandese: la storia di Constance Markiewicz comandante dell’IRA (1868-1927), Roma: ManifestoLibri, 1998. Polish edition revised and augmented: Irlandzki sen: Zycie Konstancji Markiewiczowej – komendantki IRA (1868-1927), Warszawa: Twój Styl 2000.

Come il Meridione divenne una Questione. Rappresentazioni del Sud prima e dopo il Quarantotto, Soveria Manelli: Rubettino, 1998;

Latifundium: Moral Economy and Material Life in a 19th-Century Periphery, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Latifondo: economia morale e vita materiale in una periferia dell'Ottocento, Padua: Marsilio Editore, 1989; second edition, 1990. Awarded the Sila Prize for the best scholarly book of 1989.

Trasformazioni dell'economia polacca nel XIV e XV secolo come effetto della sua integrazione in Europa, Series "Quaderni di ricerche di storia ed economia", Milan: Moizzi, 1977.

EDITED VOLUMES:

I Sud: conoscere, capire, cambiare, co-edited with Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009

Passaggi di frontiera: conversazione con Albert O. Hirschman, co-edited with Carmine Donzelli and Claudia Rusconi, Rome: Donzelli, 1994 (German, French, Spanish and American editions 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, respectively).

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:

co-author of “Introduction” and author of “La modernizzazione che venne dal Sud” in: I Sud: conoscere, capire, cambiare, ed. by Marta Petrusewicz, Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009

“Ex-centric Europe: Visions and Practices of Harmonious Modernization in the 19th-Century European Peripheries (Ireland, Norway, Poland and Two Sicilies),” in: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Jahrbuch 2006/07, Herausgegeben von Luca Giuliani un Dieter Grimm, Berlin 2008, pp. 278-293.

“Latifundia,” in: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. by Darity, William A. Jr., 2nd edition, 9 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

“Introduzione” to Kazimiera Alberti, L’anima della Calabria, Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino Editore, 2007

“Il Mediterraneo dopo Braudel: è possibile una nuova storiografia?,” in: Il Mediterraneo: Incontro di culture, ed. by Fortunato Cacciatore and Alessia Niger, Rome: Arcane 2007

“Sismondi, J.Ch.L. Simonde de” and “Peasants,” in: Europe 1789 to 1914: Scribner’s Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire19th Century, ed. by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.

“Incivilire, amare, conoscere: l’intellighentia napoletana alla scoperta del popolo,” in Natura e società Studi in memoria di Augusto Placanica, ed. by Piero Bevilacqua and Pietro Tino, Rome: Donzelli Editore 2005.

editor of, and the “Preface”, “The hidden pages of contemporary Italian history: war crimes, war guilt, collective memory”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 9, n.3, Fall 2004.

“The Modernization of the European Periphery, or Ireland, Poland and the Two Sicilies, 1820-1870: Parallel and Connected, Distinct and Comparable,” in: Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective, ed. by Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor, London and New York: Routledge 2004.

“Quasi a nation: Italy’s Mezzogiorno before 1848", in: Re-alignments of Belongings: The Shifting Foundations of Nation States, ed. by Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004.

“La modernizzazione della periferia europea: l’Irlanda, la Polonia e il Regno delle Due Sicilie, 1820-1870”, Storica, anno IX, n. 27, 2003.

- “<The natural order of things>: Sismondi and the Europe of the Borderlands,” in: Museum Europa: The European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics, ed. by Peter Burgess, Bergen: Hoyskoleforlaget 2003.

“Solidarnosc: esiste un punto di vista italiano?”, in: Solidarnosc: Vent’anni dopo, ed. by Elzbieta Jogallo and Guglielmo Meardi, Soveria Manelli: Rubbettino 2003.

“Fine della Polonia innocente. Analisi di un dibattito,” Passato e presente, a. XX (2002), n. 56: 153-166.

“Land-based Modernization and the Culture of Landed Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Mezzogiorno”, in: The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History, ed. by Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago, London: Palgrave 2002.

“Quasi una nazione: la costruzione della comunità nazionale napoletana e la nascita della Questione Meridionale”, in: Europa e Balcani: Stati Culture Nazioni, ed. by Silvio Gambino, Padova: CEDAM 2001

“A nazione mancata: The Construction of the Mezzogiorno after 1848,” in: Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, ed. by Bo Strath, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2000.

“Giuseppe Ricciardi, ribelle, romantico europeo”, in: Stato e società nel Regno delle Due Sicilie alla vigilia del 1848: Personaggi e problemi, ed. by Renata De Lorenzo, Castelnuovo, Napoli: Società Napoletana di Storia Patria 1999;

“An Agrarian Vision of Progress: Modernizing Elites in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during the Restoration (1815-1849)”, in: XII International Congress of Economic History, Proceedings. Session C-23, Madrid, Aug. 24-28 1998. Evora-Madrid 1999.

“The Demise of Latifundism,” in: The New History of the Italian South. Revisiting the Mezzogiorno, ed. by Robert Lumley and Jonathan Morris, Edinburg: Exeter Pr, 1998; Italian edition revised and augmented, Oltre il meridionalismo: Nuove prospettive sul Mezzogiorno d’Italia, Roma: Carocci 1999.

"Before the Southern Question" in Italy's Southern Question: ‘Orientalism’ in One Country, ed. by Jane Schneider, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1998;

WORK IN PROGRESS:
Ex-centric Europe: Visions and Practices of Harmonious Progress in the European Peripheries, 1815-1870


 
 
 
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