History of the British Empire (1789 -1999)

ASERI is pleased to present the volume

History of the British Empire (1789 -1999)
by  Luigi Bruti Liberati
Ed. Bompiani

Monday 2 May 2022, 6.30 pm
in ASERI (Via San Vittore 18) and ONLINE

Introduces:
Prof. Vittorio Emanuele PARSI, ASERI Director

Speakers:
Prof. Luigi BRUTI LIBERATI, Full Professor of Contemporary History, University of Milan
Prof. Mireno BERRETTINI, Full Professor of History of International Relations, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Prof. Antonino DE FRANCESCO, Full Professor of Modern History, University of Milan

The British crown has much older origins, yet in the choice of the historical arc of this volume on the empire there is an explicit symbolic choice: 1785, the year in which the battle for the abolition of the slave trade began in Great Britain, and 1999, the year of the end of Nelson Mandela's mandate as president of South Africa. Through ten chapters that teem with historical figures and well-known but also lesser-known events, we retrace the history and stories of the empire that more than any other has linked its name to colonialism, a hot topic of historiographical reflection. Bruti Liberati tackles it with a firmly narrative vein without neglecting rigorous documentation and managing to win over ordinary readers and not just scholars. Each chapter is accompanied by references from historiography, literature and cinema, to continue the journey beyond these pages.

Luigi Bruti Liberati is Professor of Contemporary History at the State University  of Milan. His privileged research areas are the cultural relations between the United States and Italy, Canada and Italy. His books include Canada, Italy and Fascism, 1919-1945 (1984), A Historian Named Indro (2011) and Hollywood against Hitler. Cinematographic images of a just war, 1939-1958 (2014). For Bompiani he published Storia del Canada (2018) with Luca Codignola.

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