Italian Colonialism

1. Introduction
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Mia Fuller

Part I. Conquest

2. Constructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics
David Atkinson

3. Italian Colonial Internment
Nicola Labanca

4. The Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War (1935–1936)
Giorgio Rochat

5. Poison Gas and Atrocities in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)
Alberto Sbacchi

Part II. Colonization

6. State and Class Formation and Collaboration in Colonial Libya
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

7. The Early Years of the Agency for the Colonization of Cyrenaica (1932–1935)
Federico Cresti

8. Empire Building and Its Limitations: Ethiopia (1935–1941)
Haile Larebo

Part III. Practices and Ideologies

9. Patrilinearity, Race, and ldentity:The Upbringing of Italo-Eritreans during Italian Colonialism
Giulia Barrera

10. The Ideology of Colonialism: Educational Policy and Praxis in Eritrea
Tekeste Negash

11. Mussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam
John L. Wright

12. Preservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonization and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya
Mia Fuller

Part IV. Representations

13. Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa
Cristina Lombardi-Diop

14. Public Space and Public Face: Italian Fascist Urban Planning at Tripoli’s Colonial Trade Fair
Krystyna Henneberg

15. The Architecture of Tourism in Italian Libya: The Creation of a Mediterranean Identity
Brian L. McLaren

16. The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences
Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Part V. Legacies

17. The Obligations of Italy Toward Libya
Angelo Boca

18. Damages Caused by the Italian Fascist Colonization of Libya
Muhammad T. Jerary

19. Italian Memories/African Memories of Colonialism
Irma Taddia

20. Italians as “Good” Colonizers: Speaking Subalterns and the Politics of Memory in the Dodecanese
Nicholas Doumanis

21. Madamismo and Beyond: The Construction of Eritrean Women
Ruth Iyob

Keywords: History, History of Italy, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism, European History, Modern History, Political Science