Italy in the Era of the Great War

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-28871-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 120, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

In Italy in the Era of the Great War, Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country’s decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and concluding with the rise of post-war social and political unrest, the volume traces domestic and foreign policy, the economics of the war effort, the history of military innovation, and social changes including the war’s impact on religion and women, along with major cultural and artistic developments of the period. Each chapter provides a concise and effective overview of the field as it currently stands as well as introducing readers to the latest research.
Contributors are Giulia Albanese, Claudia Baldoli, Allison Scardino Belzer, Francesco Caccamo, Filippo Cappellano, Selena Daly, Fabio Degli Esposti, Spencer Di Scala, Douglas J. Forsyth, Irene Guerrini, Oliver Janz, Irene Lottini, Stefano Marcuzzi, Valerie McGuire, Marco Pluviano,
Paul O’Brien, Carlo Stiaccini, Andrea Ungari, and Bruce Vandervort.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilcox, Vanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Tables
List of Contributors

Introduction
Vanda Wilcox
1 A Military History of the Turco-Italian War (1911-1912) for Libya and Its Impact on Italy’s Entry into the First World War
Bruce Vandervort
2 The Evolution of Tactical Regulations in the Italian Army in the Great War
Fabio Cappellano
3 The Italian Air Force from Its Origins to 1923
Andrea Ungari
4 Discipline and Military Justice in the Italian Army
Irene Guerrini and Marco Pluviano
5 A Machiavellian Ally? Italy in the Entente (1914-1918)
Stefano Marcuzzi
6 Italy, the Adriatic and the Balkans: From the Great War to the Eve of the Peace Conference
Francesco Caccamo
7 An Imperial Education for Times of Transition: Italian Conquest, Occupation and Civil Administration of the Southeast Aegean, 1912-23
Valerie McGuire
8 Inventing Fascism in the Period of Italian Neutrality: the Case of Benito Mussolini, August 1914 – May 1915
Paul O’Brien
9 Liberalism, Civil Rights, and Reform: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and the Great War
Spencer di Scala
10 Catholic Neutralism and the Peasant Protest against War, 1914-1918
Claudia Baldoli
11 Demobilisation and Political Violence in Italy, 1918-1922
Giulia Albanese
12 Women’s Experiences with War
Allison Scardino Belzer
13 The Catholic Church and the War
Carlo Stiaccini
14 Monetary and Financial Policy and the Crisis of Liberal Italy, 1914-22
Douglas J. Forsyth
15 The Industrial and Agricultural Mobilization of Italy
Fabio Degli Esposti
16 Futurism and the Avant-Gardes
Selena Daly
17 The Soldier and the Cinematic Lieutenant. The Great War in Italian Silent Cinema (1915-18)
Irene Lottini
18 Commemoration and the Cult of the Fallen in Italy
Oliver Janz

Timeline of Key Events, 1911-1922
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vanda Wilcox earned her D.Phil at Oxford University in 2006, and now teaches at John Cabot University and Trinity College Rome Campus. Her publications include Morale and the Italian Army During the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2016).