All Outputs (6)

The Papacy, Reform and Intervention: International Collective Security in Restoration Italy (2019)
Book Chapter
Laven, D. (2019). The Papacy, Reform and Intervention: International Collective Security in Restoration Italy. In B. de Graaf, I. de Haan, & B. Vick (Eds.), Securing Europe after Napoleon: 1815 and the new European security culture (214-230). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108597050.012

In contrast to the largely critical historiography on the Italian portion of the system established at the Congress of Vienna, this chapter argues that most Italians were happy to see the establishment of a Habsburg hegemony, in part as the main driv... Read More about The Papacy, Reform and Intervention: International Collective Security in Restoration Italy.

William Stillman: championing Crispi in late Victorian Britain (2017)
Journal Article

Empire, city, nation: Venice's imperial past and the 'making of Italians' from unification to fascism (2015)
Book Chapter
Laven, D., & Damien, E. (2015). Empire, city, nation: Venice's imperial past and the 'making of Italians' from unification to fascism. In S. Berger, & A. Miller (Eds.), Nationalizing Empires (511-552). Central European University Press

Nineteenth-century historians and the Venetian Archivio di Stato: memory and rhythms of historical research (2015)
Journal Article

This essay examines the rôle of the Venetian state archives in fashioning historiographical trends and in shaping ideas of Venetian identity during the hundred years that followed the fall of the Napoleonic empire. I argue not only... Read More about Nineteenth-century historians and the Venetian Archivio di Stato: memory and rhythms of historical research.

The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner (2015)
Book Chapter
Laven, D. (2015). The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner. In D. B. Brown (Ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours. Tate Research Publication

Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire (2014)
Journal Article
Laven, D., & Parker, L. (2014). Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire. Modern Italy, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2013.871417

The history of the Habsburg Empire in the post-Napoleonic era is frequently approached from the perspective of its various component nationalities. These were traditionally portrayed in the historiography as engaged in more-or-less open struggle with... Read More about Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire.