Stuart Joseph Woolf

Background

Stuart Woolf was born on January 23, 1936 in London, City of London, United Kingdom.

Education

Stuart Woolf received Bachelor of Arts at Merton College/Oxford University in 1956. Then he studied at Oxford University, where he got Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in 1960. After that he earned Doctor of Philosophy (by incorporation) at Cambridge University in 1961, and Doctor of Letters at Oxford University in 1991.

Career

Stuart J. Woolf is professor emeritus of contemporary history at the "Ca 'Foscari" University of Venice, where he taught from 1996 to 2006. He has taught in several English universities, Spanish and Australians, as well as, before arriving in Venice, at the European University Institute of Fiesole and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

In the context of his research addresses, which focus in particular on political and social history in modern and contemporary times, he has published numerous essays.

Among the volumes edited by Woolf, in addition to the one published in 1974 on reconstruction in Italy, the 1984 works on fascism and on nationalism in Europe, in 2002 on the nineteenth and XX century, for the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia, and of 2007, for Il Mulino, on the Republican Italy.

Achievements

• Stuart Woolf is famous as the author of books "Italian Public Enterprise", "A History of Italy, 1700-1860: The Social Constraints of Political Change", "State and Statistics in France, 1789-1815", and "The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries."

Works

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• book

  • Italia 1943-1950; la Ricostruzione 1975
  • La Valle d'Aosta (Storia d'Italia. Le regioni dall'Unità a oggi) (Italian Edition) 1995
  • Storia D'Italia-3-Dal Primo Settecento All'Unita 1973

Membership

• fellow

  Royal Historical Society

Interests

• European history of the early twentieth century

Connections

Stuart is married to Anna Debenedetti, with whom he has a common daughter.

Spouse:

Anna Debenedetti