Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comprehensive view of the field.

Autorentext
RUTH BEN-GHIAT is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University, USA.

MIA FULLER is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Inhalt
PART I: CONQUEST AND CONTROL Constructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics; D.Atkinson The Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War; G.Rochat Poison Gas and Atrocities in the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-36; A.Sbacchi Italian Concentration Camps in the Colonies; G.Ottolenghi PART II: MIGRATION, COLONIZATION, CLASS AND STATE FORMATION A Greater Italy: Migration and Colonialism in the Liberal Years; C.Ipsen Italian Settlers in Libya: Newly Examined Archives; F.Cresti Italian Land Policies in Ethiopia; H.Larebo State and Class Formation in Colonized Libya; A.A.Ahmida PART III: PRACTICES OF RULE Italian Educational Policies in Colonial Eritrea; T.Negash Miscegenation and the Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea; G.Barrera Mussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam; J.L.Wright City Planning and Colonial Control: Italian Approaches; M.Fuller PART IV: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CONSUMPTION Fascist Women in Colonial Africa; C.Lombardi-Diop The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences; R.Ben-Ghiat The Architecture of Tourism in Italian Libya: The Creation of a Mediterranean Identity; B.McLaren Public Space and Public Face at Tripoli's Colonial Trade Fair; K.von Henneberg The Italian Colonial Museum; N.Labanca PART V: LEGACIES OF EMPIRE Colonialism and Oral Memory; I.Taddia Everyday Colonialism: Subaltern Life in Italy's Aegean Possession; N.Doumanis The Consequences of Italian Colonialism in Libya; M.Jerary Italian-Libyan Relations, from the Colonial Era to the Present; A.D.Boca The Italian Colonial Period in Postcolonial Ethiopian Songs; G.Megerssa Chronology of Italian Colonialism