RUTH BEN-GHIAT is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University, USA.

MIA FULLER is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

A pioneering anthology that represents the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian imperial endeavours

PART I: CONQUEST AND CONTROL Constructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics; D.Atkinson The Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War; G.Rochat Poison Gas and Atrocities in the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-36; A.Sbacchi Italian Concentration Camps in the Colonies; G.Ottolenghi PART II: MIGRATION, COLONIZATION, CLASS AND STATE FORMATION A Greater Italy: Migration and Colonialism in the Liberal Years; [...] Italian Settlers in Libya: Newly Examined Archives; F.Cresti Italian Land Policies in Ethiopia; H.Larebo State and Class Formation in Colonized Libya; A.A.Ahmida PART III: PRACTICES OF RULE Italian Educational Policies in Colonial Eritrea; T.Negash Miscegenation and the Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea; G.Barrera Mussolini, Libya, and the Sword of Islam; J.L.Wright City Planning and Colonial Control: Italian Approaches; M.Fuller PART IV: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CONSUMPTION Fascist Women in Colonial Africa; C.Lombardi-Diop The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences; [...]-Ghiat The Architecture of Tourism in Italian Libya: The Creation of a Mediterranean Identity; B.McLaren Public Space and Public Face at Tripoli's Colonial Trade Fair; [...] Henneberg The Italian Colonial Museum; N.Labanca PART V: LEGACIES OF EMPIRE Colonialism and Oral Memory; I.Taddia Everyday Colonialism: Subaltern Life in Italy's Aegean Possession; N.Doumanis The Consequences of Italian Colonialism in Libya; M.Jerary Italian-Libyan Relations, from the Colonial Era to the Present; A.[...] The Italian Colonial Period in Postcolonial Ethiopian Songs; G.Megerssa Chronology of Italian Colonialism