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Dario Gaggio
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1999
Other U of M Affiliation:
STS (Science, Technology and Society)
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2765 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-763-2297
E-mail:
dariog@umich.edu
Office Hours:
On leave Winter 2008
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Field(s) of Study:
Modern South European history; history of technology; European economic history
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Biography:
Dario Gaggio is a historian of modern Europe specializing in 20th-century Italian history, economic history, and the history of technology. After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Florence, he received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1999. His book, “In Gold We Trust. Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns” was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. His current project is a historical reconstruction of the political economy of the Tuscan rural landscape from the early twentieth century to the 1980s. The tentative title is “Beyond the Tuscan Sun. Agriculture and the Landscape Beautiful in the Age of Mass Tourism.” As the pun suggests, the goal is to examine the economic, political, and cultural processes that, through twists and turns, have led to the fetishization of the Tuscan landscape as a place of beauty and harmony between social classes and between "man" and "nature."
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Selected Publications:
In Gold We Trust. Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton University Press, 2007)
“Pyramids of Trust: Embeddedness and Economic Change in two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts,” Enterprise and Society 7 (2006): 19-58, winner of the 2006 Newcomen Prize in business history
“Do Social Historians Need Social Capital?” Social History 29 (2004): 499-513
"Negotiating the Gold Standard: The Geographical and Political Construction of Gold Fineness in Twentieth-Century Italy," Technology and Culture, 43 (2002): 291-314
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Current Projects:
Tentative title: Beyond the Tuscan Sun. Agriculture and the Landscape Beautiful in the Age of Mass Tourism
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