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In the second half of the twentieth century it became generally accepted that the goal of the archivist’s work should be not only to reconstruct the history of the object’s producer, but also to question its genesis, preservation and the use of documentary nuclei over time. The result was a revisiting of the principles of historical method, thanks in part to the fruitful debate that was established between the community of archivists and that of historians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Born in London in 1936, Stuart completed his university studies at Oxford, where he graduated in History in 1956 and obtained his PhD in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he was a Fellow of Pembroke College in Cambridge, and from 1964 to 1974 was first Reader in Italian History and then Director of the Centre for Advanced Study of Italian Society at the University of Reading. In 1975 he became founding Professor of History at the University of Essex, a position he held until 1996. From 1983 to 1992 he also taught at the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole. His teaching activity took him to numerous universities in France, Spain, Portugal, the United States and Australia. From 1996 until his retirement, he was Professor of Contemporary History at the "Ca 'Foscari" University in Venice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il saggio vuole ricordare la figura di François Menant, recentemente scomparso, presentando gli studi da lui dedicati alla Lombardia, a partire dalla thèse doctorale dedicata a Campagnes lombardes du Moyen Age per giungere alle ricerche più recenti.

L’articolo presenta un progetto di ricerca finanziato dal Ministero italiano (PRIN). Il progetto è basato su un postulato: è impossibile rinnovare la storiografia sul Mezzogiorno d’Italia nel basso Medioevo se non si descrivono e studiano sistematicamente alcune serie archivistiche dell’Archivio di Stato of Napoli, dove è conservata documentazione amministrativa e fiscale relativa all’intero regno. Ci si concentra sulle serie archivistiche, che sono mere collezioni di documenti e registri quattrocenteschi; sulla loro importanza per la storia del Mezzogiorno; sugli obiettivi e sui ‘prodotti’ scientifici del progetto; sull’organizzazione del lavoro. Il coordinatore intende costruire un gruppo di ricerca molto coeso, che comprende i funzionari dell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli, al fine di condividere informazioni e materiali durante il progetto.

Although the creation of archives is a phenomenon innate in the organization of every social system, the full growth of the discipline that examines their features and purposes is found only in the contemporary era and goes hand in hand with the formation of precise historiographic periods. From that point of view, archival work is not typified anymore by merely administrative “writing”, but by the production of research instruments and means of cultural communication, that is, “history books”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The book traces the debate that absorbed the community of historians – and the humanities more generally – in the decades of the linguistic turn, the theoretical movement that placed language at the centre of philosophical reflection between the 1970s and 1990s. Examining the linguistic turn in the light of the category of postmodernism, the authors reconstruct the controversies, genealogies and ramifications of a movement that was anything but homogeneous. A discipline traditionally secure in its methods and results, history has emerged far more uneasy and doubtful about the possibility of producing objective and verifiable knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’introduzione al fascicolo Analogia e medioevo sive vent’anni di analogie presenta il numero 18 di "Doctor Virtualis" e traccia le tappe fondamentali della rivista. Si delineano dapprima alcune linee della storia della rivista e le sue ispirazioni teoriche e storiografiche principali, per poi mettere in luce le ragioni della rilevanza del tema dell’analogia, come oggetto utilizzato e pensato nei secoli medievali e come strumento di ricerca storiografica, e infine si conclude con l’articolazione del fascicolo. The introduction to the issue Analogy and the Middle Ages sive twenty years of analogies presents issue n. 18 of Doctor Virtualis and traces the milestones of the journal. It first sketches some lines of the history of the journal and its main theoretical and historiographical inspirations, then highlights the reasons for the relevance of the theme of analogy, as an object used and thought of in the medieval centuries and as a tool for historiographical research, and finally concludes with the articulation of the issue.

Il presente articolo intende riflettere su come l’analogia sia intesa e trattata dalla classe di metodi formali di trattamento dell’informazione che si occupano di analizzare il testo scritto. In particolare, si considera come si possano costruire macchine che “comprendono” le analogie. A tal fine ci si avvarrà di esemplificazioni tratte dal De Civitate Dei di Agostino d’Ippona. Le prime indagini compiute su tale corpus, seppure limitato, conducono a riflettere sulla portata teorica e storiografica del trattamento automatico dell’analogia anche nel formulare o avvalorare ipotesi interpretative. This article aims to reflect on how analogy is understood and treated by the class of formal information processing methods that deal with analysing written text. In particular, we consider how machines that ‘understand’ analogies can be constructed. For this purpose, exemplifications from Augustine of Hippo’s De Civitate Dei will be used. The initial investigations carried out on this corpus, albeit limited, lead one to reflect on the theoretical and historiographical significance of the automatic treatment of analogy also in formulating or supporting interpretative hypotheses.

Prendendo spunto da alcuni aspetti del dibattito contemporaneo sulla metafora, l’articolo propone un percorso attraverso varie figure di artefice per interrogarsi sulla portata filosofica, conoscitiva ed euristica dell’analogia in diverse epoche e difenderne la retoricità. Il tema dell’artefice e del suo processo creativo-produttivo compare sovente nella forma di analogia ed è oggetto di significative variazioni nel corso della storia, prima tra tutte il dislocamento del dominio e delle finalità dell’analogia dal trascendente all’immanente. Si propone un itinerario che inizia con Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, il quale condivide i principali tratti della metafisica della relazione agostiniana e monastica in cui l’analogia di proporzionalità ha un ruolo centrale non solo nel determinare la struttura dell’essere, ma anche nel progredire della conoscenza. La questione in età moderna è affrontata con brevi riferimenti ad alcune figure di artefice in età rinascimentale (Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci) e moderna (Baudelaire, Kandinskij) in cui l’interesse si sposta nell’immanenza. Si approfondisce infine il ruolo dell’analogia nei processi creativi delineati da Paul Valéry, là dove essa diviene la funzione principale del potere universale della mente. In conclusione, si presentano osservazioni dapprima teoriche, sulla dimensione filosofica, conoscitiva ed euristica dell’analogia in differenti epoche storiche; e in seguito metodiche, sull’uso dell’analogia in storia della filosofia. Starting from some aspects of the contemporary debate on metaphor, the article proposes a path through various figures of artifex to question the philosophical, cognitive and heuristic aim of analogy and defend its rhetorical dimension. The theme of the artifex and his creative-productive process often appears in the form of analogy. It has undergone significant variations throughout history, most notably the displacement of the domain and purpose of analogy from the transcendent to the immanent. An itinerary is proposed that begins with the Franciscan Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, who shares the main features of the Augustinian and monastic metaphysics of relationship in which the analogy of proportionality plays a central role not only in the structure of being, but also in the progress of knowledge. The question in the modern age is addressed with brief references to some figures of the Renaissance (Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci) and modern age (Baudelaire, Kandinsky) in which the interest shifts to immanence. Finally, the role of analogy in the creative processes outlined by Paul Valéry is explored, where it becomes the main function of the universal power of the mind. Concluding remarks are proposed, firstly theoretical, on the philosophical, cognitive and heuristic dimension of analogy in different historical periods; and then methodical on the use of analogy in the history of philosophy.

Lungo il decennio Sessanta-Settanta, contrassegnato da profonde trasformazioni strutturali e culturali, la storiografia italiana dà vita a un dibattito storiografico che mette in discussione consolidati paradigmi interpretativi per aprire la ricerca a nuove tematiche e ad altre prospettive di analisi. Sotto l’influenza del dibattito teorico d’oltralpe, nascono la storia sociale e la microstoria. A partire da questi eventi, presupposti per l’ingresso della soggettività nella ricerca storica, il saggio prende in esame i principali cardini della oramai ricca e articolata produzione sulle fonti autonarrative. Sebbene questo filone storiografico abbia avuto le sue originarie sperimentazioni nell’ambito della storia delle migrazioni e della prima guerra mondiale, e su questi grandi eventi si siano conseguiti risultati pregevoli e originali, il saggio si sofferma sulle principali linee di indagine seguite dalla Storia Politica e dalla Storia di Genere.

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La recente scomparsa di Giorgio Chittolini, tra i maggiori medievisti italiani, diventa l’occasione per un ricordo personale e per una breve riflessione sulla sua personalità scientifica, anche alla luce della sua ultima raccolta di saggi sulle istituzioni ecclesiastiche.

The paper inserts itself in the debate on (art) historiography and periodization, opposing linear and evolutionary models to anachronic and discontinuous ones. The latter are analyzed through Kunstwissenschaft, a new approach to art history, which emerged at the end of the 19th century, initially in the German speaking countries, in opposition to traditional historiographical models, anticipating actual practices, such as Visual Studies and Global Art History. In particular, this paper offers some examples of how Kunstwissenschaft reflected on its epistemic tools, confronting itself with the time in which art history started to reflect on its own status, the Renaissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elena Aga Rossi is one of the most important historians of contemporary Italy and a noted scholar of the international relations of the early cold war. In this interview with Mark Gilbert, Aga Rossi gives an overview of her career, and of her most famous books, notably Una nazione allo sbando and Togliatti e Stalin. The interview also discusses some of the most important historiographical controversies in recent Italian history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article highlights the principal themes addressed in recent Italian and American historical studies of law enforcement, as well as proposals for removing major social obstacles such as discrimination in the police and the policing of social protest, Islamic terrorism and organized crime or the excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies against the citizenship. An introduction to historical studies on the origins of local law enforcement in the United States is followed by a description of the concept of policing, namely the interaction between police and citizens, a subject addressed by most American criminologists, sociologists and historians. On the other hand, Italian jurists and historians have preferred to focus on the history of the Italian state police (Polizia di Stato) or on the national gendarmerie (Arma dei Carabinieri), and to highlight the primarily the critical times of Fascism and the so-called 'Years of Lead'. The police function to counter crime, but to do so, they adapt themselves to the kind of crime being prosecuted. A comparative overview of the main issues addressed in the two historiographies illustrates how after the 9/11 attacks law enforcement evolved in both the United States and Italy specifically to fight Islamic terrorism, and how new special units have been formed to counter crimes such as drug trafficking and Mafia rackets. But structural changes in local and state law enforcement work are also connected with changes in the authority of the state, suggesting that historians need to explore more closely the connections between security bodies, citizens and social control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there are abundant studies of the Fascist police and historians have paid a great deal of attention to policing in Liberal Italy, the history of policing in the Republican period is still a neglected topic. Yet without taking account of the police it is impossible to understand much of the history of the Italian Republic; the police mirror the society, politics and culture of Republican Italy and much remains to be done in this field. What is needed is not an internal or institutional, history, but a social, political and cultural history. The brief introduction to this collection of articles aims to explain why certain case studies have been chosen and to show how, without adopting an 'exceptionalist' interpretation, many specificities of the Italian case emerge from studying the Italian police in the Republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La storiografia ha esaminato con originalità e da diverse prospettive il suffragio e la rappresentanza ma ulteriori approfondimenti possono giungere dallo studio dei significati che l’«universo semiotico» della politica attribuisce alle differenze di genere nello spazio pubblico. Sulla base di una ricerca sulle fonti a stampa e d’archivio, il saggio esamina le pratiche discorsive sull’«uomo pubblico» e sulla «donna pubblica» nei primi vent’anni dell’Italia repubblicana. Al fine di mettere in evidenza le tante eredità del passato sulla politica italiana, offre alcuni spunti sulle rappresentazioni della femminista di primo Novecento e sulla «sovversiva» negli anni del regime fascista.

L’intervista ripercorre la formazione, la carriera accademica e i rapporti scientifici che Arnold Esch ha intessuto con gli storici di diversa nazionalità con i quali è entrato in contatto nella sua lunga attività di ricerca, per fermare infine l’attenzione sui principali temi che caratterizzano la sua ampia produzione storiografica.

This article focuses on Renzo De Felice's Mussolini il rivoluzionario, whose publication in 1965 represents a watershed moment in historiographical studies of fascism and its origins, in order to answer the question: how, to what extent, and why did the publication of Mussolini il rivoluzionario attract the attention of the intellectuals of the time? To this end, reviews of the volume are analysed and the most debated elements of De Felice's reconstruction and interpretation critically examined. Four historiographical 'nodes' are then discussed in the article: the dictator's intellectual and political profile; the reasons for his interventionist turn; the political features of the Fasci di Combattimento; and the Socialist Party's actions in relation to the First World War. De Felice's reconstruction of the reconstruction and political-ideal framework in which Mussolini's transition from socialism to fascism took place, together with his attempt to understand its terms and modalities, laid the foundations for new approaches to the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recent historiography of the Bourbon and the Savoy highlights many works in progress on the study of the Risorgimento and anti-Risorgimento. On this topic Marco Meriggi dedicates his new volume to uncostitutional petitions of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and suggests reflecting on the political role of pre-unification monarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural history has been one of the methodological approaches that has contributed the most to the revival and the renewal of the historiography of the Italian Risorgimento over the last twenty years. This article discusses recent trends that have emerged in this field at the intersection of political and cultural history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The «biographical turn» of the last two decades has produced a considerable amount of biographies – writtern by Italian and foreign historians – devoted to personalities who played an important role in the Italian Risorgimento. This article discusses these works and, in the case of non-Italian authors, seeks to esamine their vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La nota nasce dalla necessità di realizzare un sondaggio sulla recente letteratura internazionale dedicata al populismo, partendo soprattutto dalle considerazioni contenute in The Populist Temptation di Eichengreen, e in Dal fascismo al populismo nella storia di Finchelstein, nonché dai risultati dell'Oxford Handbook of Populism di Oxford, a cura di Rovira Kaltwasser, Taggart, Ochoa Espejo e Ostiguy. Le riflessioni contrastanti registrate attorno a un fenomeno così dibattuto consentono di delineare gli elementi che giustificano l'introduzione di una categoria storiografica a sé stante e di proiettare alcune definizioni sull'intera storia del sistema politico italiano. L'intenzione di questa visione d'insieme è quella di costruire un catalogo delle varie interpretazioni del populismo emerse negli ultimi anni. È interessante notare che negli anni successivi alla seconda guerra mondiale fino ai giorni nostri, le pubblicazioni sul populismo sono state prodotte in modo discontinuo, rendendo l'argomento ancora più sfuggente e non classificabile.

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Some excerpts of a seminar held on May 30, 1992, at the psychotherapy school Il Ruolo Terapeutico of Milan (Italy), published in 1996 with the title La persona e la tecnica. Appunti sulla pratica clinica e la costruzione della teoria psicoanalitica [The Person and the Technique: Notes on the Technique and the Construction of Psychoanalytic Theory], are reprinted (Revised and expanded edition: Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2002). In these pages there are some considerations on the problem of historical reconstruction in psychoanalysis. It is emphasized the importance of not relying only on official, documented history, but of knowing also the emotional vicissitudes and the life of the protagonists of theory construction. The emotional history, transmitted through verbal and informal channels, is a constitutive element of the definition itself of the psychoanalytic discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This survey analyses the debate around the history of Argentine workers during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). The origins of Argentinian labour history are reconstructed by focussing on local historiography and its relations with international historiography, and works published from the 1980s to 2000 are discussed. The developments, themes and the methods of this labour history of the last fifteen years are surveyed in order to give a broad picture of the tendences and the debates which have shaped its current configuration in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fernando Devoto, a historian from the Universities of Buenos Aires and San Martín, is one of the greatest Latin American historians of the present day. A specialist in migration history and historiography, as well as in political and intellectual history, he reflects on his intellectual biography, the evolution of Argentine and Latin American historiography over the last decades, and its link to global historical developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of communist “mythology”, its relative but undeniable success, – even stupefied, if it is related to its precarious material support – cannot be understood but in a long-term sense of history and, first of all, from the perspective of the myth and the imaginary. Lucian Boia, Romanian historian, considers that communism as a utopia is a mythology that has been programmed for a long time, inscribed not so much in the dialectics of economic and social contradictions as Marx believed; much deeper, it has become a fundamental archetype of the imaginary, and a long-lasting mental structure that has not been completely eroded over time. The utopia of communism will be treated as a mythology, by highlighting its most clear and active figures, putting into context and refining contemporary analysis through Marx’s work and other Marxist thinkers. In this perspective, the phenomenon of communism was and is a particular topic – undoubtedly dramatic – of a global historical mythology of a history, which is understood as the materialization of myths.

In the last years Italian historiography has paid a pretty fair attention to the issue of censorship in Modern Age, especially by focusing on the relationship between the Indexes (Indici) of the Catholic Church and the Italian society. A few monographs, which since 2005 have started to deal with the topic related to 16th and 17th centuries, are here analyzed and compared to outline the directions and trends of the current historical research. This study presents a comparative review of the works of G. Fragnito, U. Rozzo, V. Frajese, F. Barbierato, E. Rebellato, M. Sabato, M. Cavarzere, S. Landi, R. Savelli, M. Infelise. Abandoned some fixed schemes that affected research in the 1900s, historians have opened up new paths to study the subject. This new approach highlights details not so deeply investigated before, such as the formation process of creating different Indici, the relationship with political powers in the Italian peninsula, the divergences within Congregations and the impact that proibitions had on the different social classes of the country. Attention has often been focused on the ‘normalisation’ phase rather than on violent repression occured in 16th century. A special place is here given to the study of the institutional system and the functioning of censorship. The classification of the reading public according to different levels of freedom is as well widely stressed. In the texts two mainstream tendencies have been noticed: the former describes the effort of the censorship structures conceived as a single coherent project to keep society under control; the latter instead, aims to show the divisions inside the Church itself about the goals and methods to follow for the censorship. It is expected therefore a greater openness to foreign historiography that could give important contributions and strength to Italian studies; the opening may also be extended to other history branches and not only those related to books. All the Italian monographs analyzed are enlisted in the appendix.

A correct assessment of the History have to be based on an objective evaluation of each period on its own. Every historical period can be properly understood only if it is not linked to an abstract idea of continuous human progress and improvement. At the same time, a critical analysis of various cultural periods have to consider how these ones were lived and perceived by the societies living that period. A last level of interpretation have to be reserved to the mentality and feelings of the protagonists of the various cultural periods, because they could have a mislead perception of their own era, such as Giacomo Leopardi.

Pausanias arranges the archaiologiai of the Ionian Dodecapolis so that, for each individual city, any single piece of tradition is either accepted or rejected and put in its place in chronological order. This means writing the history. The Periegetes knows very well the so-called «panionian» version, which underlies his text; he tends to prefer this version and, when he talks about identity, he thinks according to its mechanisms. But he gives an account in which this version is mitigated through the comparison with other elaborations, and includes some aspects of these latter in his text. Pausanias integrates the «panionian» story with the local traditions of the poleis in an original account but he does this by applying the panionian perspective to the city traditions and by using and eventually adapting a chronological scheme taken from the local history or the mythography, where available, or from the oral tradition, if the collective memory preserves one.

The article demonstrates how academic historians of football no longer compete with traditional sports journalism, but with a new generation of public historians (writers, columnists and freelancers), who carry out well documented and rigorous research. By relegating the competitive dimension to the lower divisions academic historians, the article argues, risk losing touch and becoming increasingly irrelevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution analyses the Franciscan and Anthonian historical path from the Sabatierian "Franciscan question" surpassed further by contributions that, in the meantime, have come to light thanks to the "rediscovery" of the Writings of St. Francis, indicating the current circumstances in relation to studies. The reflection on the Anthonian historiography that has emerged strongly in recent decades, through the importance of its Franciscan aspect, is more linear. The places and networks where these studies are vividly present are also indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent publication of the revised English edition of Unfabling the East by Jürgen Osterhammel, originally published in 1998, makes a masterly work of a leading figure in the contemporary international framework of global history available to a larger reading public. Inquiring into the ways in which European culture of the age of Enlightenment approached the Asiatic world, Osterhammel's book offers an original interpretative proposal, mainly focusing on the discontinuity between an inclusive Eurocentrism of the 18th century culture and the exclusive one of the following age. It is an important revision of the effects of the Saidean approach to the study of the European 18th century intellectual and cultural context, giving suggestions for further inquiries and investigations which are still valid many years since the first edition of the book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The review analyzes the results of an important editorial project devoted to the forms and trends of contemporary historiography. The sectors taken into account are not only the more traditional ones, such as the organization of research, archives, museums, and the teaching of history. The volume also presents the most recent trends in the use of history in the public sphere, such as memorial laws, judicial history, commissions for truth and reconciliation. The review examines the contents, methods and theoretical implications of this research, and the author suggests some concerns about the orientation of these transformations in the elaboration and presentation of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role played by Rosario Villari as a public intellectual was closely connected to his political and historical reflections on Soviet Socialism. This paper analyses his interventions in two distinct moments. Firstly, Villari's contribution to debates on dissent in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, when he was a member of Parliament for the Italian Communist Party and an advocate of Eurocommunism. Secondly, his views on the decline and fall of Communism in Europe and Russia between 1989 and 1992. The evolution of Villari's interpretation, which ended up in a very critical assessment of the entire experience of Communism since 1917, had serious implications, in terms of historical thinking, on the legacy of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper deals with the relationship of collaboration between the diocese of Padua and the local University during the long episcopate of Girolamo Bortignon (1949-1982). Bortignon integrated university elements into his pastoral action, promoting the involvement of academics in the formation of the clergy and in the birth of the journal «Studia Patavina» and supporting the foundation of CUAMM (Collegio universitario aspiranti medici missionari). During the council period, the bishop supported the historical studies and, with the participation of university professors, launched the Istituto per la storia ecclesiastica padovana. He was attentive to the needs of the students, founding accommodation facilities and, at the end of the Sixties, opening places of aggregation not controlled by the Azione cattolica where university students could confront each other. The article closes briefly dealing with the attitude held by the Church of Padua when the terrorist violence involved and hit the city and the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2018 the Association "Amici di Passato e Presente" (Apep) organized a seminar at the University of Naples devoted to the deindustralization process, a rather neglected topic in Italian public debate. Starting from the methodological introduction by Roberta Garruccio, who pointed out how the processual dimension of deindustrialization reflects the manifold meanings of the concept itself, the seminar invited a comparison between case studies in the South and North of Italy, those of Milan (Giorgio Bigatti), Turin (Stefano Musso), Naples (Gabriella Corona and Stefano Parisi), Piombino (Annalisa Tonarelli) and Torre Annunziata, Naples (Enrica Morlicchio). The debate highlighted many points in common in different areas of the country: the fragility of the cultural heritage of the industrial era, the weak perception of the urban transformation and social impact of deindustrialization, the lack of memory of the factories, the controversial relationship between the latter and the context, both in terms of social and environmental impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the work of the Spanish historian Josep Fontana (1931-2018), an influential scholar and intellectual in the community of Spanish historians during the second half of the 20th century. His work focused on the genesis of the Spanish liberal revolution and contemporary society and the dissemination of the basic principles of the historian's work. He was the author of more than forty monographs and hundreds of articles, collaborations and conferences, and he also edited major collective works on Spanish historiography; moreover, he published ambitious works on World history in the 20th century, and was editorial advisor to some publishing houses which contributed to the modernization of history in Spain through the translation of foreign authors, especially those belonging to Anglo-Saxon Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]