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Restorations of Empire in Africa Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 03/2024





Note Editore

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy's colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy's invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome? This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy's first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy's current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism's invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini's movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.




Sommario

1 - The Fall of Italia Risorta: Ethiopia, Roman Africa, and the Invention of Italy
2 - 'There, Too, Is Rome': The Roman Empire and the Conquest of Libya
3 - Modernizing Antiquity: Decadence and Futurism in Roman Africa
4 - Technology and Power: Screening Imperialism in Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914)
5 - Redeeming Italia Irredenta: Fascism’s March on Africa
6 - Italia tandem imperium habet suum: Fascist Italy’s Roman Empire
7 - Carmine Gallone's Scipione l'Africano: Restaging Rome, Reincarnating Romanità
8 - The Arco dei Fileni: The Realization of Romanità in Africa
9 - The Decline and Fall of the Fascist Empire
10 - Conclusion: Memories of Mare Nostrum




Autore

Samuel Agbamu is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. He holds a PhD in Classics from King's College London, where he also studied for a PGCE in Classics. Prior to taking up his Early Career Fellowship, Sam taught at schools in London and Cambridge.




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Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780192848499

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Classical Presences
Dimensioni: 240 x 20.0 x 160 mm Ø 666 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:16
Pagine Arabe: 320


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