Faculty in History
Dr.
Alexander Grab
Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History
207-581-1928
265 Stevens Hall
E-Mail:
alexander.grab@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., UCLA
I offer courses in Early Modern and Modern European history. I also
offer one course on the history of the Middle East. I regularly teach
the following courses: European Civilization 1700-present (HTY 106);
Europe 1648-1815 (HTY 407); Modern Italy 1796-present (HTY 429); The
Holocaust (HTY 410); Modern Middle East (HTY 411). I also offer a
graduate seminar in Early Modern Europe and a Senior Seminar on the
French Revolution and Napoleon. My area of research has focused on
Italian history in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Initially, I have
studied eighteenth century Lombardy, when that region was a part of the
Habsburg Empire. Currently, I am researching the Italian Peninsula, with
special emphasis on northern Italy, during the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic period. I am a member of the American Historical Association
and the Society of Italian Historical Studies.
Books:
Representative Articles:
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"The Napoleonic Empire in Italy: The
Transfer of Tax Ideas and Political Legitimacy," in Global Debates
About Taxation, Holger Nehring and Florian Schui, eds. (London,
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), 61-79.
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"Public Education in Napoleonic Italy," in
Napoleon and His Empire Europe, 1804-1814, Philip Dwyer and Alan
Forrest, eds. (Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), 149-164.
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"From the French Revolution to Napoleon," in The Risorgimento and
Unification (1789-1896) The Short Oxford History of Italy, John
Davis, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000), 25-50.
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"The Politics of Finances in Napoleonic
Italy (1802-1814)," in The Journal of Modern Italian Studies,
3(2), 1998, 127-143.
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"La politica finanziaria nella Repubblica
e nel Regno d'Italia sotto Napoleone (1802-1814)," in L'Italia
nell'et napoleonica. Atti del LVIII congresso di storia del
Risorgimento italiano (1996), 39-113.
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"Army, State, and Society: Conscription and Desertion in Napoleonic
Italy (1802-1814)," The Journal of Modern History, 67, (March 1995),
pp. 25-54.
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"State Power, Brigandage and Rural Resistance in Napoleonic Italy,"
European History Quarterly, 25, (January 1995) pp. 39-70.
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"The Politics of Subsistence: The Liberalization of Grain Commerce in
Austrian Lombardy under Enlightened Despotism," Journal of Modern
History, 57 (June 1985) pp. 185-210.
Work in progress:
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