University of Cambridge (1947–62) University of Oxford (1962–87)
Doctoral students
Christopher Duggan
Main interests
Risorgimento, Italian fascism
Notable works
Modern Italy: A Political History
Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA FRSL (March 3, 1920 – July 11, 2017)[2] was an English historian who specialized in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for his biographies of Garibaldi, Cavour and Mussolini, and for his single-volume Modern Italy: A Political History.[3][4] He was named Grand Official of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1996.[5]
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^"Denis Mack Smith obituary: Eminent historian of modern Italy who was a true populariser of his subject". The Guardian. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
^web, Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto. "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale.
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reigning monarchs of all time DenisMackSmith, Italy and Its Monarchy, New Haven: Yale University Press pp. 182–183 DenisMackSmith, Italy and Its Monarchy...
ISBN 978-0-713-99709-5. DenisMackSmith (1989). Italy and Its Monarchy. Yale University Press. p. 72. ISBN 0300051328. DenisMackSmith (1989). Italy and Its...
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DenisMackSmith, Mussolini's Roman Empire, p 48 ISBN 0-670-49652-9 DenisMackSmith, Mussolini's Roman Empire, p 50-1 ISBN 0-670-49652-9 DenisMack Smith...
University of Wisconsin Press. p. 99. MackSmith, Denis (1983). Mussolini. New York: Vintage Books. p. 38. DenisMackSmith (1983). Mussolini: A Biography....
Retrieved 13 August 2015. Smith, DenisMack (1982). Mussolini. Knopf. p. 163. ISBN 9780394506944. D.M. Smith 1982, pp. 222–23 D.M. Smith 1982, p. 311 Rachele...
Company, 1971, p. 26 DenisMackSmith, Modern Italy: A Political History, University of Michigan Press (1997) p. 308 DenisMackSmith, Modern Italy: A Political...
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. p. 16. ISBN 978-0801489211 DenisMackSmith. Italy and its Monarchy. Yale University Press, 1989. p. 265. ISBN 978-0274734382...
DenisMackSmith (1997). Modern Italy; A Political History. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-10895-4, pp. 209–210 (Smith (1997)...
became interested in the history of modern Italy after being taught by DenisMackSmith. He graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979...
created, or sustained, widespread inefficiencies. According to historian DenisMackSmith (1981), "[s]uccess in this battle was [...] another illusory propaganda...
ISBN 978-0521385183 Finley, M. I. and DenisMackSmith. A History of Sicily (3 Vols. 1968) Finley, M. I., DenisMackSmith and Christopher Duggan, A History...
machine". He was swept along by a tide of events. Mussolini, according to DenisMackSmith, "was an actor, playing the part that Italians wanted him to be". He...
Tommaso Pedio, Storia della Basilicata raccontata ai ragazzi, p.266 DenisMackSmith, Italy:a modern history, p.72 Indro Montanelli, L'Italia dei notabili...
financial management by the local southern governments. Historian DenisMackSmith noted, in the 1960s, that about a third of the money was squandered...
Introduction to Their Life and Thought (1963). A History of Sicily: with DenisMackSmith (3 vols., 1968). Ancient Sicily to the Arab Conquest, vol. 1 Medieval...
International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2006) 8#3: 371–379. DenisMackSmith (2008). Mazzini. Yale UP. p. passim. ISBN 978-0300177121. "Young Italy" ...
text search Smith, DenisMack. 1997. Modern Italy; A Political History. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. Smith, DenisMack (1983). Mussolini:...
murder on their own. Other historians, including Justin Pollard and DenisMackSmith, thought Mussolini was probably aware of the assassination plot but...
Genoa. However, the Piedmontese troops easily crushed the new attempt. DenisMackSmith writes: In the spring of 1834, while at Bern, Mazzini and a dozen refugees...
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