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The Italian empire and the Great War / Vanda Wilcox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Vanda, 1979- author.
- Series:
- The Greater War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Italy.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Italy--Politics and government--1914-1922.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- A volume which brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Vanda Wilcox explores how the Italian empire was conceived both in conventional terms as a system of colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an informal global empire of emigrants; both were mobilised in support of the war.
- Contents:
- Imperialism and irredentism in liberal Italy
- From neutrality to intervention, 1914-15
- Italians on the battlefield
- Societies at war
- War in the Italian colonies
- The war beyond Italy
- Race, nationality, and citizenship
- The Paris Peace Conference and beyond
- Post-war settlements in the Adriatic and the Balkans
- Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean after the war.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191861796
- 0-19-186179-0
- 0-19-255575-8
- OCLC:
- 1257084504
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