EXPERTISE

Geographic Areas
Italy
Western Europe

Issues
European History
Italian History
Italy and the World

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Adrian Lyttelton
Senior adjunct professor of European Studies

Background and Education
Visiting professor at the American Academy in Rome (Fall 2003); visiting professor at the department of History, University of California, Berkeley (1997 and 2000); professor of European history, University of Pisa (1990-2000); associate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1987); member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1985-86); academic director of Research Institute, Bologna Center (1980-85); acting director, European program, SAIS Washington (Spring 1983); professor of history at the SAIS Bologna Center (1979-90); professor of modern history at the University of Reading, UK (1976-79); B.A. (Honours) in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford University (UK); fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (UK); fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford (UK)

Publications
The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 (1973, 2nd edition 1988, 3rd edition 2004) - Italian translation, La conquista del potere (1974); editor of the volume on "Liberal and Fascist Italy" in the Short Oxford History of Italy (2002); "Creating a National Past: History, Myth and Image in the Risorgimento," in Making and Remaking Italy, (2001); "La dittatura fascista," in Storia d'Italia (1997); "Society and Politics - 1860-1915," in Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (1997); "The National Question in Italy," in The National Question in Europe (1990); "Society and Culture in the Italy of Giolitti," in Italian Art in the 20th Century (1989); The Language of Political Conflict in Pre-Fascist Italy, Bologna Center Occasional Paper (1988); editor of Italian Fascisms (1973)

Languages
English
Italian