Mussolini's Nation-Empire

Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Roberta Pergher, Bloomington) Pergher, Roberta (Indiana University

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Roberta Pergher transforms our understanding of Fascist rule. Examining Fascist Italy's efforts to control the antipodes of its realm - the regions annexed in northern Italy after the First World War, and Italy's North African colonies - she shows how the regime struggled to imagine and implement Italian sovereignty over alien territories and peoples. Contrary to the claims of existing scholarship, Fascist settlement policy in these regions was not designed to solve an overpopulation problem, but to bolster Italian claims to rule in an era that prized self-determination and no longer saw imperial claims as self-evident. Professor Pergher explores the character and impact of Fascist settlement policy and the degree to which ordinary Italians participated in and challenged the regime's efforts to Italianize contested territory. Employing models and concepts from the historiography of empire, she shows how Fascist Italy rethought the boundaries between national and imperial rule.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-02
Mått159 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in European History
Antal sidor296
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108419741

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Roberta Pergher is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches classes on modern Europe, the history of Empires, the First World War, and Nazi Germany. She has published widely on Italian Fascism, imperial formations, and population settlement. Previously, she taught at the University of Kansas and was a fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Introduction; 1. The boundaries of sovereignty: Italian rule in contested territories; 2. Settlement and sovereignty from the Alps to Africa. 3. Divided by a common language: the regime and the settlers; 4. Other subjects, other citizens: the regime and the native populations; 5. 'Inviolable' borders: land, people and the Option Agreement between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy; Conclusion: Mussolini's Nation-Empire.

'The post-WWI Paris Treaties established a framework for the exploration of both minority rights and colonial emancipation. How Italy's Fascist administration interacted with these notions in its borderlands - the recently acquired South Tyrol (Alto Adige) and Trentino, as well as the ongoing conflict in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (later Libya) - is the subject of this study, whose conclusions significantly contribute to discussions of nation, empire, assimilation, racism, and citizenship. Recommended.' R. T. Ingoglia, Choice