Contemporary History in Italy: a View from Germany

Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Christof Dipper
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/283 Language Italian
Pages 33 P. 209-241 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ic283-oa1
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The perspectives are grim. Insiders have been talking about the risk that Italian universities might be committing suicide, along with Italian contemporary historiography. As a member of Miur’s evaluation committee, Christof Dipper, a well-known historian of Italy, recently had the chance reflect on the condition of the country’s contemporary historiography. As Dipper clearly points out, there is little room for optimism, since most publications are self-referential, parochial in content and very parochial from the point of view of their methodology. Only a few exceptional studies are innovative and ground-breaking.

Keywords: Historiography, Contemporary History, Research Assessment (Asn)

Christof Dipper, La storia contemporanea in Italia vista dalla Germania. Un’istantanea in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 283/2017, pp 209-241, DOI: 10.3280/ic283-oa1