1st Edition
Italian Land Owning the Soil to Secure the Borders, 1915–1954
By Andrea Di Michele
Copyright 2027
228 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book reconstructs the Italian 'land conquest' plans to Italianise the territories conquered after the victory in the First World War: South Tyrol (or Alto Adige, in Italian), Venezia Giulia, Istria).
The volume's focus is on the twenty-year Fascist period, but also shows how such plans originated even earlier and remained present for at least the first decade after the fall of Fascism. It... Read more
1. What identities emerged at the border? 2. The start: the conquest of land in the 1920s 3. From colonisation plans to border fortification 4. Option Agreement and repopulation plans 5. Defending Italian-ness after Fascism 6. Conclusion
Biography
Andrea Di Michele is Full Professor at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
