Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War

This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of fascist imperial ambitions. He focuses on the European territories annexed and occupied by Italy between 1940 and 1943: metropolitan France, Corsica, Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and mainland and insular Greece. He explores Italy's plans for Mediterranean expansion, its relationship with Germany, economic exploitation, the forced 'Italianisation' of the annexed territories, collaboration, repression, and Italian policies towards refugees and Jews. He also compares Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany through their dreams of imperial conquest, the role of racism and anti-Semitism, and the 'fascistization' of the Italian Army. Based on previously unpublished sources, this is a groundbreaking contribution to genocide, resistance, war crimes and occupation studies as well as to the history of the Second World War more generally.

Author: Davide Rodogno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 562
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.29w x 1.54d
ISBN: 9780521845151

About the Author
Rodogno, Davide: - Davide Rodogno is Academic Fellow in the School of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.Belton, Adrian: - Adrian Belton is a freelance translator specialising in the humanities and the social sciences.

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