Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970

• Main Author: Srivastava, Neelam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Europe-History-1492-.; Africa-History.; World politics.; Military history.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Modern Europe.; African History.; Political History.; History of Military.

This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussoliniʼs army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread p...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Italian Anti-Colonialism and the Ethiopian War
• Chapter 3: "Ethiopia's Cause is our Cause": Black Internationalism and the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
• Chapter 4: Harlem's Ethiopia: Literary Pan-Africanism and the Italian Invasion
• Chapter 5: A Partisan Press: Sylvia Pankhurst, British Anti-Colonialism, and the Crisis of Empire
• Chapter 6: Internationalism and Third-Worldism in Postwar Italy
• Chapter 7: African Decolonization and the Resistance Aesthetics of Pontecorvo, Orsini, and Pirelli.