David Kertzer
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American historian and anthropologist
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David Kertzer's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
- Bachelors Social Studies Haverford College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Israel Kertzer is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown.
David Kertzer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Ritual, Politics and Power (1989) (721)
- Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses (2001) (346)
- Generation as a Sociological Problem (1983) (291)
- Household History and Sociological Theory (1991) (174)
- Census and Identity: Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power (2001) (156)
- Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action (2013) (126)
- The Family in Italy: From Antiquity to the Present. (1993) (110)
- Anthropological demography: toward a new synthesis. (1998) (109)
- Transitions Over the Life Course: Lessons from Age-Set Societies (1978) (104)
- Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change: The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921 (1989) (94)
- Italy’s Path to Very Low Fertility: The Adequacy of Economic and Second Demographic Transition Theories (2006) (90)
- Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century. (1987) (88)
- Age and Anthropological Theory (1984) (86)
- Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. (1995) (85)
- Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism. (1997) (78)
- Advances in Italian and Iberian Family History (1987) (78)
- Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age. (1996) (77)
- Situating fertility: Political-economic and cultural explanations of demographic behavior (1995) (66)
- Comrades and Christians: Religion and Political Struggle in Communist Italy (1982) (66)
- Age Class Systems: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age (1985) (62)
- The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997) (59)
- Studying Voluntary Associations as Adaptive Mechanisms: A Review of Anthropological Perspectives [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (56)
- Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and Its Consequences. (1991) (50)
- The history of the European family (2001) (48)
- Reflections on the European Marriage Pattern: Sharecropping and Proletarianization in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861–1921 (1991) (48)
- Child Abandonment in European History: A Symposium (1992) (47)
- Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. YASEMIN NUHOGLU SOYSAL (1995) (47)
- The Joint Family Household Revisited: Demographic Constraints and Household Complexity in the European Past (1989) (47)
- Toward an anthropological demography. (1997) (45)
- The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change (review) (2000) (45)
- An "Imperfect" Contraceptive Society: Fertility and Contraception in Italy. (2009) (45)
- Golden ages, dark ages : imagining the past in anthropology and history (1992) (41)
- Aging in the past: demography society and old age. (1997) (36)
- Age structuring in comparative perspective (1991) (35)
- Anthropology and Family History (1984) (33)
- Gender Ideology and Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1991) (32)
- Family life in the long nineteenth century, 1789-1913 (2002) (32)
- On the Move: Migration in an Italian Community, 1865–1921 (1985) (30)
- Census and Identity: Index (2001) (29)
- Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910: Sharecropping, Wage Labor and Coresidence (1985) (28)
- Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change: The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921. (1991) (26)
- Cheating the angel-makers: surviving infant abandonment in nineteenth-century Italy (1994) (24)
- An Introduction To the History of Italian Family Life (1990) (24)
- :Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2002) (23)
- Kinship beyond the household in a nineteenth-century Italian town (1992) (23)
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches to historical demography. (1997) (21)
- Family life in early modern times, 1500-1789 (2003) (20)
- European Peasant Household Structure: Some Implications From a Nineteenth Century Italian Community (1977) (18)
- Longitudinal Approaches to Migration in Social History (1985) (17)
- The Rites of Passage, Second Edition (2019) (17)
- The European Experience of Declining Fertility: A Quiet Revolution, 1850- 1970. (1993) (16)
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (review) (2014) (16)
- Review Essay : Future Directions in Historical Household Studies (1985) (16)
- Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State (2004) (16)
- : Feuding, Conflict, and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica (1990) (16)
- Syphilis, foundlings, and wetnurses in nineteenth-century Italy. (1999) (15)
- Family life in the twentieth century (2005) (14)
- Religion and the decline of fertility: Conclusions (2006) (14)
- Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe: Anthropological Perspectives (2005) (14)
- Childhood mortality and quality of care among abandoned children in nineteenth-century Italy. (1999) (14)
- Household Organization and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1990) (13)
- Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe (1983) (13)
- The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present. (1993) (13)
- Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Developments [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (12)
- Growing up as an abandoned child in nineteenth-century Italy (1997) (12)
- Living with grandparents. The tenacity of three-generational households in an industrializing italian community (1871-1921) (1991) (12)
- Language, symbolism, and politics (1994) (12)
- Making a Middle Way: Problems of Monhegan Identity (1972) (11)
- Theoretical Developments in the Study of Age-Group Systems: Fundamentals of Age-Group Systems . Frank Henderson Stewart. (1978) (11)
- The social bases of declining infant mortality: Lessons from a nineteenth-century Italian town (1987) (10)
- Gender, Family and Work in Naples (1998) (10)
- The Perils of Reification: Identity Categories and Identity Construction in Migration Research (2017) (8)
- Italian communism : the escape from Leninism : an anthropological perspective (1991) (8)
- Gramsci's concept of hegemony: The Italian Church-Communist struggle (1979) (8)
- History as it really wasn't: the myths of Italian historiography (2001) (7)
- Abandoned Children and Their Transitions to Adulthood in Nineteenth-Century Italy (2000) (7)
- The house that Giacomo built (1985) (7)
- The Impact of Postmarital Residence of Fertility, Early Childhood Mortality, and Child Health in Southern Ethiopia (2000) (7)
- Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 (review) (2006) (7)
- The marriage of female foundlings in nineteenth-century Italy (1998) (7)
- The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present (1994) (7)
- Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 (2006) (6)
- Data Organization and Conceptualization (1998) (6)
- Social Anthropology and Social Science History (2009) (6)
- Sesto San Giovanni: Workers, Culture, and Politics in an Italian Town, 1880-1922 (1986) (5)
- POLITICS AND RITUAL: THE COMMUNIST FESTA IN ITALY' (1974) (5)
- History and Anthropology: A Dialogue (1986) (5)
- Family relations in life course perspective (1986) (5)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean. David D. Gilmore, ed (1987) (4)
- Sport and the Shaping of Italian American Identity (2015) (4)
- Childhood and Industrialization in Italy (1987) (4)
- Regional Context and Fertility in Contemporary Italy 1 (2007) (4)
- The Montel Affair: Vatican Jewish Policy and French Diplomacy under the July Monarchy (2002) (3)
- Age structuring and the lives of abandoned children. (1999) (3)
- Migration Patterns During Italian Urbanization, 1865-1921 (1985) (3)
- The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender Among California Italian‐Americans. MICAELA DI LEONARDO (1985) (3)
- Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle (2006) (3)
- Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain 1860-1940 (1997) (3)
- Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life.Steven Mintz , Susan Kellogg (1989) (3)
- Unholy war : the Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-semitism (2002) (3)
- Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: Vol. 2: Family Relations in Life Course Perspective. (1989) (2)
- Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews (2014) (2)
- An Introduction to the History of Italian Family Life (1990) (2)
- Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity. (1996) (2)
- Book Review:The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems. Emmanuel Todd, David Garrioch (1988) (2)
- On Rational Choice and Beached Disaporas (1999) (2)
- Politics and Symbols (2017) (2)
- Family Systems in Europe (2001) (2)
- The stalled transition (1996) (2)
- Historical demographic methods of life-course study. (1986) (2)
- Nuns (2012) (1)
- Participation of Italian Communists in Catholic Rituals: A Case Study (1975) (1)
- The lost cause: failed French ultimata and the restoration of papal rule in Rome in 1849 (2017) (1)
- The Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and the demonization of the Jews (2014) (1)
- An “ Imperfect ” Contraceptive Society : Fertility and Contraceptive Practices in Italy Introduction (2009) (1)
- Sharon Klein. Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 369 pp. (2019) (1)
- Interview with Romano Prodi (2014) (1)
- New Methods for Old Age Research: Anthropological Alternatives (1982) (1)
- The Medieval in the Modern: Nazi and Italian Fascist Use of the Ritual Murder Charge (2019) (1)
- African Age-Set Systems and Political Organization: the Latuka of Southern Sudan (1980) (1)
- The House That Giacomo Built. 1983. A film by Donald S. Pitkin and Bill Anderson (1984) (1)
- 23 Anthropological Demography (2019) (1)
- Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions (1999) (1)
- Class Formation and Political Mobilization in Turn-of-the-Century Milan (1995) (1)
- The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Between History and Controversy (2013) (1)
- Nick Carter (ed.), Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento (2016) (1)
- Age class systems: The generational model (1985) (1)
- The Liberation of Evelina Zaghi: The Life of an Italian Communist (1982) (1)
- The Enduring Controversy over the Mortara Case (2019) (1)
- Book Reviews: Comparative Politics (1988) (0)
- Book Review:Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1996) (0)
- Age class systems: The residential model (1985) (0)
- Age class systems: Characteristics of age class systems (1985) (0)
- SSHA Graduate Student Prize (2009) (0)
- The “Jewish Question” in the Territories Occupied by Italians, 1939–1943. Edited by Giovanni Orsina and Andrea Ungari. Viella Historical Research, volume 16. Rome: Viella, 2019. Pp. 346. €58,00 (cloth); €34,99 (e-book). (2022) (0)
- The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (2021) (0)
- Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean: Remembering Fascism's Empire. By Nicholas Doumanis ( New York , St. Martin' Press , 1997 ) 243 pp. $65.00 (1998) (0)
- The Italian Catholic Press and the Racial Laws (1938–1943) (2021) (0)
- The work of Paul Ginsborg (2004) (0)
- Interview with Romano Prodi (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Carl Ipsen. Italy in the Age of Pinocchio: Children and Danger in the Liberal Era. (Italian and Italian American Studies.) New York: Palgrave. 2006. Pp. 261. $65.00 (2007) (0)
- Age class systems: The initiation model (1985) (0)
- Peter Laslett 1915–2001 (2002) (0)
- Age class systems: Women and age class systems (1985) (0)
- Age class systems: The anthropological study of age class systems (1985) (0)
- Representations and Rituals of the State (2001) (0)
- Anthropology 202/History 222: Politics and Symbolism at the Interface of Anthropology and History (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Jacques Kornberg. The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War (2016) (0)
- Honour and Violence. (2003) (0)
- Age class systems: References (1985) (0)
- Hitler, Mussolini, and the Vatican. By Emma Fattorini (trans. Carl Ipsen) (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011) 260 pp. $25.00 (2012) (0)
- Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town (1996) (0)
- Joshua D. Zimmerman, editor. Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 374. $40.00. (2006) (0)
- Ethnology: Hare Krishna and the Counterculture. J. Stillson Judah (1976) (0)
- chapter two Making Communist History (2017) (0)
- 儀式・政治・権力 (1989) (0)
- Kinship in the Past: An Anthropology of European Family Life, 1500-1900.Andrejs Plakans (1986) (0)
- MICHAEL PHAYER. Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2008. Pp. xvi, 333. $29.95 (2009) (0)
- Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie. By Tukufu Zuberi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xxii+196. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
- Galeazzo Ciano’s Vatican Embassy (2022) (0)
- Maura E. Hametz. In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court. (2014) (0)
- Larry Wolff. Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice. (2014) (0)
- Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 18501950. By John F. Pollard (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005) 265 pp. $85.00 (2006) (0)
- Age class systems: Preface (1985) (0)
- Fertility Change on the American Frontier: Adaptation and Innovation.Lee L. Bean , Geraldine P. Mineau , Douglas L. Anderton (1991) (0)
- Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and Its Consequences.By Michael L. Blim. Praeger. 1990. 288 pp. $42.95 (1991) (0)
- Anthropology and Demography (2018) (0)
- Response to the commentators remarks on «Anthropology and Demography» (2018) (0)
- Age class systems: The choreographic model (1985) (0)
- Peter Eisner: The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler. New York: William Morrow, 2013. Pp. 304. Hb, $27.99. (2014) (0)
- The Italian Executioners (2018) (0)
- Shira Klein. Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 369 pp.—CORRIGENDUM (2019) (0)
- Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism by Sharon Klein (review) (2019) (0)
- :Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War (2009) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Beyond Yiddishkeit: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in a Reform Synagogue. Frida Kerner Furman (1988) (0)
- Generation and Age in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2019) (0)
- Ethos, economics and “civilization” in rural Italy (1976) (0)
- Age class systems: The ethnemic significance of the age class system (1985) (0)
- Jews as Non-Aryans: The Vatican's Ambivalent Embrace of Fascist Italy's Racialization of Jews (2023) (0)
- Age class systems: Glossary (1985) (0)
- Nuns: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2012) (0)
- Age Class Systems: Legitimation and power in age class systems (1985) (0)
- Grandparent-provided child care: unexpected effect on fertility intentions in Italy (2010) (0)
- Ritual, Politics, and Power . By David I. Kertzer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 235p. $22.50. (1989) (0)
- Pius XI and America : proceedings of the Brown University Conference (Providence, October 2010) (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- Italian Catholic press support for the Axis War (2020) (0)
- In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (2020) (0)
- Hitler, Mussolini, and the Vatican (review) (2012) (0)
- New Directions in Historical Demography@@@Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (1990) (0)
- Editorial (2005) (0)
- SSH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1993) (0)
- The regimental model (1985) (0)
- Editorial Foreword (2020) (0)
- Book Review:Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Daniel Dayan, Elihu Katz (1993) (0)
- chapter three Saviors and Conspirators (2017) (0)
- Carl Ipsen.Italy in the Age of Pinocchio: Children and Danger in the Liberal Era.:Italy in the Age of Pinocchio: Children and Danger in the Liberal Era.(Italian and Italian American Studies.) (2007) (0)
- Political Authority in a Sicilian Village . By Filippo Sabetti (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1984. xi, 293p. $35.00). (1988) (0)
- Economic Thought (1995) (0)
- The Papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust. By Frank J. Coppa. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Pp. xx+353. $59.95. (2008) (0)
- Age class systems: History and changes in age class systems (1985) (0)
- The Rites of Power (2017) (0)
- Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families From the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline.Wally Seccombe (1994) (0)
- Age class systems: The initiation-transition model (1985) (0)
- Age class systems: The choice of ethnographic models (1985) (0)
- Can Japanese Society Promote Individualism?: Chikako Usui (2013) (0)
- How the division of labour affect fertility intentions: a mixed method approach (2009) (0)
- R. J. B. Bosworth. Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover. (2020) (0)
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