Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922-1943

Roberta Pergher transforms our understanding of Fascist rule. Examining Fascist Italy's efforts to control the antipodes of its realm - the regions annexed in northern Italy after the First World War, and Italy's North African colonies - she shows how the regime struggled to imagine and implement Italian sovereignty over alien territories and peoples. Contrary to the claims of existing scholarship, Fascist settlement policy in these regions was not designed to solve an overpopulation problem, but to bolster Italian claims to rule in an era that prized self-determination and no longer saw imperial claims as self-evident. Professor Pergher explores the character and impact of Fascist settlement policy and the degree to which ordinary Italians participated in and challenged the regime's efforts to Italianize contested territory. Employing models and concepts from the historiography of empire, she shows how Fascist Italy rethought the boundaries between national and imperial rule.

Author: Roberta Pergher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/28/2019
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781108414784

About the Author
Pergher, Roberta: - Roberta Pergher is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches classes on modern Europe, the history of Empires, the First World War, and Nazi Germany. She has published widely on Italian Fascism, imperial formations, and population settlement. Previously, she taught at the University of Kansas and was a fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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