1st Edition
A History of Italian Colonialism 1914-1919 The Promised Land: Volume II
By Giuseppe Finaldi
Copyright 2026
308 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
308 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the outbreak of the First World War to the first stirrings of Fascism in 1919.
Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, this second volume moves between Rome and the Alps, Libya, East Africa and beyond to tell of an Italy struggling to profile itself as an empire while it fought out the First World War. It... Read more
1. Prelude to war 2. An Italian empire at war 3. Losing the Fezzan and Tripolitania 4. Holding on in Tripoli 5. Holding on in Cyrenaica 6. Preserving tranquillity in Eritrea 7. Somalia under the shadow of war 8. Preparing for a colonial peace 9. Italy’s Wilsonian moment
Biography
Giuseppe Finaldi teaches European history at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on modern Italy. A History of Italian Colonialism, Europe’s Last Empire 1860-1907 (2017) is the first instalment of his multivolume study of Italy’s little known colonial history.
