Publications

Books and edited volumes

• Risorgimento. The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State (London, Palgrave, 2009)
• Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero (New Haven CT & London, Yale University Press, 2007); Italian translation, Garibaldi. L'invenzione di un eroe (Rome & Bari, Laterza, 2007)
• Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe (co-edited with David Laven), (Oxford, Berg, 2000)
• Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859-1866 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998) Italian translation published as La Sicilia e l'unificazione italiana (Turin, Einaudi, 2004)
• Charisma and the Cult of Personality in Modern Italy, (co-edited with Stephen Gundle), special issue of Modern Italy, 3/2 (1998)
• The Italian Risorgimento: State, Society and National Unification (London, Routledge, 1994); Italian translation published with an additional chapter as "Il Risorgimento: storia e interpretazioni" (Rome, Donzelli, 1997 and 2007). Romanian translation published as Italia în perioda Risorgimento (Bucharest, Editura Artemis, 2001)

Selected articles

• 'The politics of Italian romanticism: Mazzini’s making of political culture, 1837-1848', in Proceedings of the British Academy, C. Bayley & E. Biagini (eds) (2008)
• 'Eroi maschili, virilità e forme della guerra', in A. M. Banti & P. Ginsborg (eds), Il Risorgimento (Turin, Einaudi, 2007)
• 'Which Italy? Italian culture and the problem of politics', Journal of Contemporary History 39 (2004), 437-46
• 'Elites in search of authority: political power and social order in nineteenth-century Sicily', History Workshop Journal, 55, 2003, 25-46
• '"Ill-contrived, badly executed [and] … of no avail"? Reform and its impact in the Sicilian latifondo (c.1770-c.1910)', in R. Halpern & E. dal Lago (eds), The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (London, Palgrave, 2002)
• 'Storie d'amore, di libertà e di avventure: la costruzione del mito garibaldino prima e dopo il '48-49', in A. Banti & R. Bizzocchi (eds) L'immagine della nazione nell'Italia del Risorgimento (Rome, Carocci, 2002)
• 'Rivoluzione, repubblicanesimo e Risorgimento: Roma e i suoi storici, 1798-99 e 1849', Roma Moderna e Contemporanea, IX, 1-3 (2001), 285-306
• 'Which road to the South? Revisionists revisit the Mezzogiorno' Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 5 (2000), 89-100
• 'Restoration government and the legacy of Napoleon' (with David Laven), in Napoleon's Legacy (as above)
• 'Nelson versus Bronte: land, litigation and local politics in Restoration Sicily', European History Quarterly 29/1 (1999), 39-74
• 'Progress and compromise in liberal Italy', Historical Journal, 38 (1995), 205-13
• 'Elite resistance to state formation: the case of Italy' in M. Fulbrook (ed.), National Histories and European History (London, UCL Press, 1993)