Recent Publications

Monographs

Naples & Napoleon: The European Revolutions in Southern Italy
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
J.A. DavisConflict and Control: Law and Order in 19th Century Italy
(Macmillan Press, London 1988 pp398: Humanities Press, NY 1989; published in Italy as Legge e ordine. Autorità e conflitti nell'Italia dell'Ottocento ( Milan 1990)
Economy and Society in Bourbon Naples 1815-1860
(Arno Press, NY 1981: Italian edition - Imprenditori e Società nel Regno Borbonico (Bari Laterza, 1979)

Edited Volumes
Italy in The Nineteenth Century The Oxford Short History of Italy: (Oxford University Press - Vol. 5 in The Oxford Histories of Italy: Sept 2000)

Italy and America 1943-44; Italian, American and Italian American Experiences of the Liberation of Southern Italy (Città del Sole, Naples, Italy, 1997)

J. A. Davis & P. Mathias International Trade and British Economic Growth from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell, Oxford UK, 1997)

J. A. Davis & P. Mathias Agriculture and Economic Growth from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell, Oxford 1996)

J. A. Davis & P. Mathias Enterprise and Labour from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 1995); includes J. A. Davis Introduction and 'Enterprise and Labour in Italy 1870-1945')

J. A. Davis & P. Ginsborg Politics and Society in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in Honour of Denis Mack Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1991Includes J. A. Davis 'The Santafede and the crisis of the Ancien Regime in Southern Italy')

J. A. Davis & P. Mathias Technology and Innovation from the 18th Century to the Present
Blackwell, Oxford 1991) includes J. A. Davis 'Technology and Innovation in an Industrial Late-comer - Italy in the 19th century')

J. A. Davis & P. Mathias The First Industrial Revolutions (Blackwell, Oxford 1990 –
Includes. J.A. avis 'Industrialization in Britain and Europe before 1850:
New Perspectives and Old Problems')

J. A. Davis (ed) Gramsci and Italy's Passive Revolution (London, 1979 - includes
J. A. Davis 'The South, the Risorgimento and the Origins of the
Southern Problem')

Contributions to Collective Volumes

J.A.Davis‘Italy’s Divided Destinies? Napoleonic Rule in the North and in the South’ Napoleon and His Empire: Europe 1804-1814.ed Philip Dwyer & Alan Forrest( London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

‘Il Mezzogiorno e la Questione Meridionale dal 1943 a oggi’ in S.J. Woolf ed L’Italia Repubblicana Vista da Fuori (2003) ( Vol. 4 della Storia d’Italia nel Secolo Ventesimo, Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di l
Liberazione in Italia a cura di G. Rochat forthcoming 2006)

J.A Davis“Political and cultural worlds of Puccini’s Tosca: Anticlericalism in Italy at the Turn of the Century’ in D.Burton & S. Vandiver Nicassio Tosca’s Prism.Three Moments in Western Cultural History (NU Press) 2005

J.A.Davis‘L’Inghilterra, Nelson e la Repubblica napoletana del 1799’ in A-M Rao (ed) Napoli 1799. Tra Storia e Storiografia (Naples, Vivarium: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici) 2002, pp 393-427

J.A.Davis“The Many Faces of Modernity: French Rule in Southern Italy 1806-1815’ in Michael Rowe (ed) Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe. State Formation in an Age of Upheaval 1800-1815 Palgrave Macmillan 2003 pp74-89

J.A. Davis‘Il Settecento’ in A Di Vittorio Dalla Crescita allo Sviluppo: Storia Economica d’Europa (Giappichelli, Torino 2002)- new English edition to be published by Blackwell in 2006

'Nuove prospettive sulla storia economica dell'Italia contemporanea' in
P.Ciocca & G.Toniolo (eds) Storia Economica dell'Italia Contemporanea
(Cariplo-Laterza, Milano 1999), Vol 1 (Le interpretazioni) pp196-259.

'Italy 1800 -1914' in R.Goldstein (ed) Political Censorship in Nineteenth Century Western Europe (Greenwood Press, CT, 2000 )pp 81-124

'The politics of cultural interdiction: censorship and public opinion in Italy from the Restoration to the Revolutions of 1848 ' in D. Laven & L.Riall (eds) The Napoleonic Legacy in Europe 1814-1848 (Berg, London, 2000) pp237-256

'Casting off the 'Southern Problem'?: the Peculiarities of the South
Reconsidered' in J. Schneider (ed) Italy's 'Southern Question".
Orientalism in One Country. (Berg, Oxford 1998) pp205-224

'From Revolution to Unification: Italy 1789-1870' in G. Holmes (ed)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (Oxford University Press, Oxford,
1997) pp177-209

'Modern Italy in Changing Perspective: a historiographical exploration' in
M. Bentley (ed) New Directions in Contemporary Historical Writing
(Blackwell, Oxford UK, 1997 pp 591-619

Changing Perspectives on Italy's 'Southern Problem' in C. Levy (ed)
Italian Regionalism (Berg Press, June 1996) pp 53-68

'Enterprise and Labour in Italy 1870-1940' in Davis & Mathias eds
Enterprise and Labour from the 18th century to the Present (Blackwell,
Oxford 1996), pp110-163

'The Mezzogiorno and Modernization: Changing Contours of Pubic and
Private during the French Decennio' in P. Macry and A. Massafra (eds)
Fra Storia e Storiografia: Scritti in onore di Pasquale Villani (Il Mulino,
Bologna 1995) pp691-708

‘Entrepreneurs and the Southern Question’ in I. Zilli ed Fra Spazio e Tempo: Studi in Onore di Luigi de Rosa (Naples, ESN, 3 Vols. 1995),
Vol. 2, pp219-230'

‘Dalla Gran Bretagna’ in L’Italia Contemporanea e la Storiografia Internazionale ed F. Mazzonis (Marsilio, Venice, 1995) pp93-11

'Resistance to Change; Elites, Municipal Government and the
State in Naples 1750-1850' in The Fortunes of the City and The Visible Hand ed H. Diedericks and P. Hohenberg Leicester University Press, 1992)

'Public power and private power in the Mediterranean countries: Southern Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries' in Etats et pouvoirs en Méditerranée Vol. 2, (Nice 1992) pp25-41

'The English Left, Italian socialism and the Mezzogiorno 1890-1926' in G. Cingari & S. Fedele (eds) Il Socialismo nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia 1892-
1926 (Bari, Laterza, Italy 1992)

'La fin du royaume de Murat à Naples' in Y.M. Bercé (ed) 1814; Les Transitions de Pouvoir en Europe (Paris 1991)

'Socialism and the Working Classes in Italy before 1914' in European Socialist Movements 1870-1914 ed R. Geary (Berg Press, 1990)

'Lo stato e l'ordine pubblico nel Mezzogiorno e in Sicilia nella prima metà del XIX secolo' in F. Pillitteri (ed) Contributi per un Bilancio del Regno Borbonico (Palermo, Italy 1990)

'The political role of the Neapolitan Army During the Decennio francese ' in A. M. Rao ed Esercito e Società nell'Età Rivoluzionaria e Napoleonica (Napoli 1990)

'Les sanfédistes dans le royaume de Naples (1799): guerre sociale ou
guerre civile? Les Résistances à la Révolution ed F. Lebrun & R. Dupuy (Paris 1987) pp311-321

'Naples during the decennio francese; A problem unresolved?' in Villes et Territoires Pendant la Période Napoléonienne (Collection de l'Ecole
Francaise de Rome) Rome 1987 pp327-354

'Garibaldi e il movimento radicale inglese 1848-70' in Garibaldi e il Socialismo ed G. Cingari & R. Batttaglia (Laterza, Bari, Italy 1984 pp 191-222)

Articles
‘Opera and Absolutism in Restoration Italy, 1815-1860’Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 36, Number 4, Spring 2006, pp. 569-594

‘Filippo Mazzonis & Italy’s Monarchy’ Journal of Modern Italian Studies 9/2 2004

'The Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 between history and myth' Journal of Modern Italian Studies 4/3 fall 1999 pp

'Rivolte popolari e contro-rivoluzione nel Mezzogiorno continentale' Studi Storici, 39, 2 aprile-giugno 1998 pp603-622 (reprinted in Anna Maria Rao (ed) Folle Contro Rivoluzionarie: Le insorgenze popolari nell’Italia giacobina e napoleonica Carocci, Rome 1999 pp 349-368)

'New Perspectives on the Questione Meridionale' Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1/1 , September 1995, pp152-7

'Remapping Italy's Path to the Twentieth Century' Journal of Modern History 66 (June 1994) 291-320 (reprinted in P.Donovan ed Government and Politics in Contemporary Italy 2 Vols Greenwood Press Ct 1999 Vol 2 pp 1-45)

'The Napoleonic Era in Southern Italy; An Ambiguous Legacy?' Proceedings of the British Academy (1993)(80) 133-148

'The impact of French rule in the Kingdom of Naples' Ricerche Storiche 1990 (n2-3) pp388-95

'The Rural Roots Of Fascism In Southern Italy' European History Quarterly vol. 17 (1987) pp229-234

'The Duce's Centenary' Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies December 1983

'Reading History- Italian Unification' History Today November 1984 pp43-6

'Palmerston and the Sicilian Sulphur Crisis of 1840: an episode in the imperialism of free trade' Risorgimento (Brussels) vol. 1, n2 (1982) pp5-24

(with C. Seton Watson)'Recent Writings And Research on Modern Italian History 1800-1970' Risorgimento (Brussels) Vol. 1, n.3 pp 117-119

'Garibaldi and England' History Today December 1982 pp 21-6

'Innovations and new technologies: aspects of the problem of industrial development in southern Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries' Cahiers de la Méditerranée (University of Nice, France 1984 pp 45-58)

'Oligarchia capitalistica e immobilismo economico a Napoli 1815-60' Studi Storici XVI 1975, n.2 pp378-426

'The Case of The Vanishing Bourgeoisie: a reinterpretation of social and economic development in the Mezzogiorno in the early 19th century' Mélange del l'Ecole Francaise de Rome. vol. 88, (Rome 1976) pp845-874.

Published Conference Papers
J.A.Davis ‘Carpet-baggers or state-builders? French rule in southern Italy 1806-1815’ Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (ed Cook, Nicassio, Pakvocic, Roiter) Louisiana State University 2004 pp344=350

‘Torino e il Piemonte visti dagli Stati Uniti (1840-49) in Il Piemonte alle soglie del 1848 ed U Levra (Comitato di Torino dell’Istituto del Riusorgimento Italiano) (Torino 1999) pp 677-706.
'Torino vista da Washington' in 1848: Torino, l'Italia, l'Europa ed U.Levra
& R. Roccia, (Archivio dello Stato, Torino 1998) pp499-505

'I grandi patrimoni nella storia e nella storiografia economica italiana' in
A. Di Vittorio (ed) Tra rendita e investimenti, formazione e gestione dei
grandi patrimoni in Italia in età moderna e contemporanea (Atti del
Convegno di Studi della Società Italiana degli Storici dell'Economia, Turin
22-23 November 1996) Bari 1999

'Great Britain and Italy in the Napoleonic era' in L'Italia nel'età
napoleonica (Atti del LVIII congresso di storia del Risorgimento italiano,
Roma 1997, pp 385-400

'Britain and Italy in the Age of Revolutions (1830-1848)' (Atti del LVI Congresso Nazionale, Piacenza -Italy - 15-18 October 1992) (Rome, Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento 1994) ed E. Morelli

'The Army and Public Order in Italian Cities 1870-1914' in Atti del Convegno Internazionale sull' Esercito e Città in Italia 1870-1945
(Spoleto 1988) 2 Vols., Rome (Deputazione di Storia Umbra) 1989

"Images of Italy in European Culture' Atti del Convegno Internazionale sulla Lingua e Cultura Italiana in Europa (Amsterdam 1988), Rome 1990 (Foreign and Education Ministries of the Italian Republic)

J. A. Davis, 'L'Inghilterra, l'Italia e la Puglia' in Alla Scoperta delle Identità Regionali
F. Gugliemelli (Milan 1987) pp127-141

'The Phlegrean fields and the Industrial Revolution: prospects for development and industrial options in Italy at the end of the 19th century' in P. Amalfitano (ed) Il Destino della Sibilla (Naples 1986 pp 151-9)
'Archaeologia Industriale e Storia Economica del Mezzogiorno d'Italia nel XVII e XVIII Secoli: Imagini di un Fallimento?' in C. De Seta (ed) Manifatture in Campania (Naples 1983)

'Revolutionary and Napoleonic Tuscany seen from Naples' in I. Tognarini (ed) La Toscana nell'età Rivoluzionaria e Napoleonica (ESI, Florence & Naples) 1986 pp78-89

'L'Insegnamento della storia nelle università britanniche' in Atti del Convegno degli Storici Italiani (Messina 1978) pp287-305.

Visual Productions
Mussolini and Italian Fascism' (Warwick History Videos, 1991)

'The Unification of Italy' (Warwick History Videos, 1987)
& D. Mack Smith