A History of Italian Colonialism 1914-1919

The Promised Land: Volume II
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-15247-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Empires in Perspective

This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the outbreak of the First World War to the first stirrings of Fascism in 1919

Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, this second volume moves between Rome and the Alps, Libya, East Africa and beyond to tell of an Italy struggling to profile itself as an empire while it fought out the First World War. It recounts how Italy clung on in Africa with anti-colonial forces triumphing in Libya and threatening in Eritrea and Somalia, and how finally emerging victorious in Europe, it hoped to reap the rewards of victory on the colonial front.

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

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Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finaldi, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.  Prelude to the Great War  2. An Italian empire at war 3. Losing the Fezzan and Tripolitania  4. Holding on in Tripoli  5. Holding on in Cyrenaica  6. Preserving tranquillity in Eritrea  7. Somalia under the shadow of war  8. Preparing for a colonial peace  9. Italy’s Wilsonian moment

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.