Eugenio F. Biagini is an Italian historian, specialising in democracy and liberalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, Ireland and Italy, and is currently Professor in Modern British and European History at the University of Cambridge. 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.
Biography
He completed his bachelor's 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 Princeton University, and in 1996 he moved to Cambridge University, where he is currently Professor in Modern British and European History, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Biagini is married to fellow academic Almut Hintze and has one son. The Gladstone Club has said: "Of the many biographies of Gladstone his is the most concise but also arguably the most profound."
Citizenship and Community. Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931 .
*‘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.
‘Exporting ‘Western & Beneficent Institutions’: Gladstone and Empire, 1880-1885’, in David Bebbington and Roger Swift, Gladstone Centenary Essays , pp. 202–224.
‘Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953’, in E. H. H. Green and D. M. Tanner, The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate, pp. 212–246.
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 .
*‘Introduction’, pp. 1–11.
*‘Mazzini and Anticlericalism: The English Exile’, pp. 145–166.
‘Abraham Lincoln in Germany and Italy, 1859-1865’, in R. Carwardine and J. Sexton, The Global Lincoln, pp. 76–94.
‘The politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the Indian Mutiny and the Radical Critique of Liberal imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain’, T. Crook, R. Gill and B. Taithe, Evil, Barbarism and Empire. Britain and Abroad c. 1830-2000, pp. 99–125.
