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  • University of Oxford (Balliol College) ; Occupations: author · historical writer · biographer.

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    About the Author

    David Gilmour's wonderfully readable exploration or Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled with the great figures of the Italian past-from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medicis, from Garibaldi and Cavour to the show more controversial politicians of the twentieth century. Gilmour's wise account of the Risorgimento, the pivotal epoch in modern Italian history, debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always legat in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. The country's strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of
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    David Gilmour

    Praise for The British in India

    Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details

    Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

    Glorious, human, colourful, teeming and spicy. If you read just one book on imperial India, let it be this

    John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express

    An exceptional book. It evokes those animated crowd scenes painted by William Frith, full of people going about their workaday lives, or enjoying themselves. ... David Gilmour's canvas is British India and he provid ...

    Lawrence James, The Times

    Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details

    Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

    Glorious, human, colourful, teeming and spicy. If you read just one book on imperial India, let it be this

    John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express

    An exceptional book. It evokes those animated crowd scenes painted by William Frith, full of people goin

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    'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama

    'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles Times

    George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to the traumatized years following the First World War. As Viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and Foreign Secretary beneath George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era. David Gilmour's lucid and elegant biography fryst vatten a brilliant assessment of Curzon's character and achievements, offering a rich and dramatic account of the infamous vendettas, the turbulent friendships, and the passionate, reckless love affairs that complicated and enriched his life.

    'A magnificent work ... entirely convincing in its evocation of Curzon's extraordinary character ... It is, in short, the definitive life' David Cannadine, Observer

    'Exemplary biography ... meticu