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Italian ColonialismThe Obligations of Italy Toward Libya

Italian Colonialism: The Obligations of Italy Toward Libya [The colonial period is perhaps the least known and most mystified part of Italian national history. Even today, more than fifty years after the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty that deprived Italy of her colonies forever, most Italians are not aware of what really happened between 1885 and 1943 in the four African regions that Italy conquered through force and maintained through terror. In Italian culture, there has been and continues to be an almost total repression of colonialism and its crimes, and genocides. Democratic and republican Italy still clings to myths and legends that were invented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and which continue to be fiercely defended and lovingly cultivated by a vocal minority of nostalgics and revisionists. Almost every week, in the letters columns of the newspapers, someone exalts the civilizing mission of Italy in Africa and attacks serious and scrupulous historians who dare to reveal things at odds with such beliefs.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismThe Obligations of Italy Toward Libya

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Del Boca, Angelo
Italian Colonialism — Feb 17, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
195 –202
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_17
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Abstract

[The colonial period is perhaps the least known and most mystified part of Italian national history. Even today, more than fifty years after the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty that deprived Italy of her colonies forever, most Italians are not aware of what really happened between 1885 and 1943 in the four African regions that Italy conquered through force and maintained through terror. In Italian culture, there has been and continues to be an almost total repression of colonialism and its crimes, and genocides. Democratic and republican Italy still clings to myths and legends that were invented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and which continue to be fiercely defended and lovingly cultivated by a vocal minority of nostalgics and revisionists. Almost every week, in the letters columns of the newspapers, someone exalts the civilizing mission of Italy in Africa and attacks serious and scrupulous historians who dare to reveal things at odds with such beliefs.]

Published: Feb 17, 2016

Keywords: Colonial Period; Moral Courage; Italian Government; Colonial Past; Colonial Occupation

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