Mussolini's nation-empire : sovereignty and settlement in Italy's borderlands, 1922-1943
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Mussolini's nation-empire : sovereignty and settlement in Italy's borderlands, 1922-1943
（New studies in European history）
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : paperback
Available at 1 libraries
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan
Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-278) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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