1st Edition
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907 Europe’s Last Empire
By Giuseppe Finaldi
Copyright 2017
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
274 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and... Read more
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. ‘First come the missionaries…’
Chapter 2. ‘then the ambassadors…’
Chapter 3. ‘then the soldiers.’
Chapter 4. Italy’s Firstborn Colony
Chapter 5. The Conquest of Ethiopia
Chapter 6. Adowa
Chapter 7. The Aftermath
Chapter 8. Saving Eritrea
Chapter 9. Doing Good in the Benadir
Chapter 10. The ‘Mullah Pazzo’
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Giuseppe Finaldi is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia.
