About Paul Ginsborg
Lived 1945 – 2022 (aged 76). Paul Ginsborg was a British historian and university teacher.
Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British-born Italian historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence.
Education and activism Ginsborg was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in History in 1966. He was a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, before later moving to work in Italy. With Pancho Pardi, he opposed Silvio Berlusconi's justice reforms, and campaigned alongside the girotondi movement.
Law on Holocaust denial Ginsborg was of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, et al., he signed a call in January 2002 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, to specifically penalize Holocaust denial. They argued that Italy's legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended law project finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.
Publications Daniele Manin e la rivoluzione veneziana del 1848-49, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1978; Torino, Einaudi, 2007. . Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi. Società e politica 1943-1988, 2 voll., Torino, Einaudi, 1989. ; Milano, Einaudi scuola, 1996. .(In English: A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943–1988, Macmillan 2003). Dialogo su Berlinguer, con Massimo D'Alema, Firenze, Giunti, 1994. . Stato dell'Italia, a cura di, Milano, Il saggiatore-B. Mondadori, 1994. . Le virtù della Repubblica. Conversazione a Formia, a cura di, Milano, Il saggiatore, 1994. . Enti locali, società civile e famiglia nell'educazione in Toscana, a cura di e con Dario Ragazzini e Gastone Tassinari, Firenze, Edizioni Regione Toscana, 1996. L'Italia del tempo presente. Famiglia, società civile, Stato 1980-1996, Torino, Einaudi, 1998. . Storia d'Italia 1943-1996. Famiglia, società, Stato, Torino, Einaudi, 1998. . Un'Italia minore. Famiglia, istruzione e tradizioni civiche in Valdelsa, a cura di e con Francesco Ramella, Firenze, Giunti, 1999. . Italy and its Discontents 1980-2001, Penguin, 2001. Berlusconi. Ambizioni patrimoniali in una democrazia mediatica, Torino, Einaudi, 2003. . Il tempo di cambiare. Politica e potere della vita quotidiana, Torino, Einaudi, 2004. . La democrazia che non c'è, Torino, Einaudi, 2006. . Storia d'Italia. Annali, XXII, Il Risorgimento, a cura di e con Alberto Mario Banti, Torino, Einaudi, 2007. . Salviamo l'Italia, Torino, Einaudi, 2010. . Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, a cura di e con Enrica Asquer, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011. . Passions and Politics, with Sergio Labate (Polity, 2019).
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British historian (1945-2022)
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