Böcker av Giuseppe Finaldi

This book, part two of Giuseppe FinaldiΓÇÖs sweeping account of Italian colonialism studies its history from the turn of the 20th century to the early 1930s. The book engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. The period saw an economic leap forward, an extension of ItaliansΓÇÖ political engagement ΓÇô through new forces such as popular socialism, social Catholicism and the ΓÇÿnewΓÇÖ nationalism ΓÇô as well as a huge surge in the number of people leaving Italy for new lives in the Americas while expansionism made its mark in Libya, the horn of Africa and elsewhere.

To what extent can we compare Mussolini's Italy to Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia? What legacy has the experience of Fascism left behind in Italy and in Europe? This book explores such important questions in Finaldi's introduction to one of the most important movements of the European 20th Century.