A History of Italian Colonialism 1900-1934

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8153-9429-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Empires in Perspective

This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

This first volume engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change in Italy resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, it tells the story of a nation bent on conquest in China, Africa and the Mediterranean, of indigenous resistance in Libya and East Africa, of defeat, and of victory.  It recounts how Italy dreamed and pursued an empire, and how reality was never far from tripping up this, the least of the European Great Powers. From the ramifications of the defeat at Adowa in 1896, through the rule of prime minister Giovanni Giolitti, to the attack on the Ottoman Empire in 1911, and beyond, the history of Italian colonialism is followed here up to the looming of the First World War.

This volume is of great value to students and scholars alike interested in Italian, European, African and colonial history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finaldi, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.  Oriental intermezzo  2. Italy on its way  3. Imperialist Italy  4. The Promised Land  5. The invasion  6. The Great Proletarian has stirred  7 The glorious summer of 1912  8. The ministry of colonies  9. The conquest of the Fezzan  10. The conquest of Cyrenaica  11. Pictures and an exhibition

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Finaldi teaches European history at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on modern Italy. A History of Italian colonialism, Europe’s Last Empire 1860-1907 (2017) is the first instalment of his multivolume study of Italy’s little known colonial history.