Generations of Empire : Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean / Andreas Guidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guidi, Andreas, author.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies.

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Political activity.

Youth.

Families.

Rhodes (Greece : Island)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Rhodes (Greece : Island).

Greece--Rhodes (Island).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became a territory of Italy’s empire in 1923 following the Treaty of Lausanne, only one year after Mussolini seized power in Rome. The Ottoman demise corresponded to the expansion of Fascist imperialism in the Mediterranean. Both the Ottoman Young Turks and Italian colonial governors invoked the role of a “new generation” of youth in imperial rule. Generations of Empire investigates the relationship between state and society in light of successive transformations of imperial rule, rethinking Italian colonialism as post-Ottoman history. Andreas Guidi explores how communal life on Rhodes and other islands of the Southern Aegean were affected by the islands’ transition between these regimes, from Muslim empire to military occupation to fascist annexation. Based on archival sources in five languages from seven countries, the book investigates generational dynamics in the domains of political activism, the family, education, work and leisure, and mobility. Generations of Empire offers a vivid picture of how a local society navigated large-scale social and political transformations in the modern Mediterranean."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates

Introduction

1. The Emergence of Youth as a Political Category

2. Where Families and Empires Meet

3. New Schools, or How Youth Became Students

4. A "Good Conduct" between Work and Leisure

5. Generations, Mobility, and Shifting Limits of Belonging

Epilogue: Imperial Coda

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Guidi, Andreas Generations of Empire

ISBN:

1-4875-4128-7

1-4875-4129-5

OCLC:

1292473959