All Outputs (3)

William Stillman: championing Crispi in late Victorian Britain (2017)
Journal Article
Laven, D. (2017). William Stillman: championing Crispi in late Victorian Britain. Modern Italy, 22(4), 355-370. doi:10.1017/mit.2017.54

Nineteenth-century historians and the Venetian Archivio di Stato: memory and rhythms of historical research (2015)
Journal Article
Laven, D. (2015). Nineteenth-century historians and the Venetian Archivio di Stato: memory and rhythms of historical research. STORIA DELLA STORIOGRAFIA, 68(2), 89-106. doi:10.1400/240641

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.

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.