Mussolini''s Nation-Empire - Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy''s Borderlands, 1922-1943

The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.

List 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.

About the author

Roberta Pergher is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches classes on modern Europe, the history of Empires, the First World War, and Nazi Germany. She has published widely on Italian Fascism, imperial formations, and population settlement. Previously, she taught at the University of Kansas and was a fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Pergher, Roberta (Indiana University Pergher, Pergher Roberta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108419741
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41974-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Italy, Fascism & Nazism, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1930 to c 1939, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)