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Italian ColonialismMussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam

Italian Colonialism: Mussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam [As a socialist agitator, Benito Mussolini was imprisoned in 1911 for violent protest against the Italian invasion of Turkish Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. As fascist Duce, he visited the Italian colony of Libya three times, in 1926, in 1937, and in 1942. In 1926 he was still consolidating the power he had assumed less than four years before, and he was concerned mainly with the still unsettled state of the colony and its prospects for agricultural development. In 1942 he went to Libya in anticipation of a triumphant entry on a white charger into newly conquered Alexandria; instead, he spent three weeks waiting in vain for an Axis breakthrough at al-Alamein. The 1937 visit was altogether the most successful. Despite some embarrassing news from Spain and Ethiopia, it provided a suitably striking public setting for important initiatives in fascist colonial and imperial policies.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismMussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Wright, John L.
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
121 –130
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_11
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Abstract

[As a socialist agitator, Benito Mussolini was imprisoned in 1911 for violent protest against the Italian invasion of Turkish Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. As fascist Duce, he visited the Italian colony of Libya three times, in 1926, in 1937, and in 1942. In 1926 he was still consolidating the power he had assumed less than four years before, and he was concerned mainly with the still unsettled state of the colony and its prospects for agricultural development. In 1942 he went to Libya in anticipation of a triumphant entry on a white charger into newly conquered Alexandria; instead, he spent three weeks waiting in vain for an Axis breakthrough at al-Alamein. The 1937 visit was altogether the most successful. Despite some embarrassing news from Spain and Ethiopia, it provided a suitably striking public setting for important initiatives in fascist colonial and imperial policies.1]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Middle East; Muslim World; Daily Mail; Daily Telegraph; Colonial Policy

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