Giuseppe Finaldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6324865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuseppe Finaldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuseppe |
| FAMILY NAME | Finaldi |
| SIGNATURE | FINALDI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8412-120X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
It is a Fascist Empire. Some points of discussion on the nature of the Italy’s colonialism during the Fascist period
On May 9, 1936, in one of his most celebrated speeches delivered from the balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini announced to Italy and the world that the nation ‘finally had its empire.’ Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa a few days earlier; Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian king of kings, had fled into exile. The Duce’s words were broadcast across the country and throngs gathered in all of Italy’s piazzas where loudspeakers - sixteen had …
“Without Flinching”
This article examines the development of racial discourses in Italy during the process of unification and in the following years with respect to some of the fundamental issues experienced by and facing the new nation. Anthropologists and criminologists proselytised the new “science” purporting to have discovered a novel hermeneutic for how Italy should be imagined, moulded and propelled into the future. In this article, the test case provided for…
Fascism, Violence, and Italian Colonialism
The foundations of Italy’s colonial empire in Africa were laid when Italy was an aspirational and well-meaning liberal nation. In the 1920s and 1930s, like its predecessor, Mussolini’s Fascist state also looked to Africa to expand. Focusing on the Italian reconquest of Libya in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as the brutal massacre of civilians that took place in Ethiopia in 1937, this article looks into the nature of Italian colonial vio…
Simon Levis Sullam, The Italian Executioners
Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento
Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento. Edited by Nick Carter (London: Palgrave, 2015), £60.00 (cloth)
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued. The events that brought Italy to open c…
Mussolini and Italian Fascism
Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th and early 20th century came to a head. Mussolini, the man who most fashioned Italian Fascism, dramatically expressed the unease and the hopes of his age. To what extent can we compare Mussolini's …
Totalitarian Dictatorship
1. Beyond the Delusion: New Histories of Totalitarian Dictatorship Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi 2. Cold Empathy: Perpetrator Studies and the Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich Robert Gerwarth 3. The Life and Death of General Blaskowitz Christopher Clark 4. Stalin and the World of Culture Sheila Fitzpatrick 5. The Great Manipulator: Francisco Franco Paul Preston 6. Blueblood and Blacksmith: Comparative View of …
War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilization in Modern Europe and Its Empires
European Empire and the Making of the Modern World
Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality (London: Routledge, 2003), 436 pp., £18.99 (pb), ISBN 0415196167. L. J. Butler, Britain and Empire. Adjusting to a Post-imperial World (London: Tauris, 2000), 249 pp., £14.99 (pb), ISBN 186064449X. Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur, eds., Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 248 pp., £55.00 (hb), ISBN 0333791800. Nicola Labanca, Oltremare (…
Culture and imperialism in a ‘backward’ nation? The Prima Guerra d‘Africa (1885-96) in Italian primary schools
This article attempts to tackle the problem of how a colonial culture that was elaborated through the written word may have impacted on an Italian society that was significantly more ‘backward’ than its western European counterparts. The Prima Guerra d'Africa (1885-96) has often been seen as a military campaign desired exclusively by an isolated Italian government in a society that was incapable of using the occasion to develop cultural themes th…
Adowa and the Historiography of Italian Colonialism
Report on the Convegno internazionale di studi nel centenario della battaglia di Adua , Piacenza, 10–12 April 1996, now published as, Angeld Del Boca (ed.), Adua. Le ragioni di una sconfitta , Laterza, Rome - Bari, 1997, 468 pp., ISBN 88–420–5196–9, 45,000 Lire. In April 1987, I turned up at Trento's Centro Santa Chiara expecting to see a screening of Mustapha Akkad's The Lion of the Desert and discovered instead, due to a forced entry into the a…
Fascism, Violence, and Italian Colonialism
The foundations of Italy’s colonial empire in Africa were laid when Italy was an aspirational and well-meaning liberal nation. In the 1920s and 1930s, like its predecessor, Mussolini’s Fascist state also looked to Africa to expand. Focusing on the Italian reconquest of Libya in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as the brutal massacre of civilians that took place in Ethiopia in 1937, this article looks into the nature of Italian colonial vio…
Culture and imperialism in a ‘backward’ nation? The Prima Guerra d‘Africa (1885-96) in Italian primary schools
This article attempts to tackle the problem of how a colonial culture that was elaborated through the written word may have impacted on an Italian society that was significantly more ‘backward’ than its western European counterparts. The Prima Guerra d'Africa (1885-96) has often been seen as a military campaign desired exclusively by an isolated Italian government in a society that was incapable of using the occasion to develop cultural themes th…
Adowa and the Historiography of Italian Colonialism
Report on the Convegno internazionale di studi nel centenario della battaglia di Adua , Piacenza, 10–12 April 1996, now published as, Angeld Del Boca (ed.), Adua. Le ragioni di una sconfitta , Laterza, Rome - Bari, 1997, 468 pp., ISBN 88–420–5196–9, 45,000 Lire. In April 1987, I turned up at Trento's Centro Santa Chiara expecting to see a screening of Mustapha Akkad's The Lion of the Desert and discovered instead, due to a forced entry into the a…
Culture and imperialism in a ‘backward’ nation? The Prima Guerra d‘Africa (1885-96) in Italian primary schools
This article attempts to tackle the problem of how a colonial culture that was elaborated through the written word may have impacted on an Italian society that was significantly more ‘backward’ than its western European counterparts. The Prima Guerra d'Africa (1885-96) has often been seen as a military campaign desired exclusively by an isolated Italian government in a society that was incapable of using the occasion to develop cultural themes th…
European Empire and the Making of the Modern World
Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality (London: Routledge, 2003), 436 pp., £18.99 (pb), ISBN 0415196167. L. J. Butler, Britain and Empire. Adjusting to a Post-imperial World (London: Tauris, 2000), 249 pp., £14.99 (pb), ISBN 186064449X. Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur, eds., Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 248 pp., £55.00 (hb), ISBN 0333791800. Nicola Labanca, Oltremare (…
War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilization in Modern Europe and Its Empires
Totalitarian Dictatorship
1. Beyond the Delusion: New Histories of Totalitarian Dictatorship Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi 2. Cold Empathy: Perpetrator Studies and the Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich Robert Gerwarth 3. The Life and Death of General Blaskowitz Christopher Clark 4. Stalin and the World of Culture Sheila Fitzpatrick 5. The Great Manipulator: Francisco Franco Paul Preston 6. Blueblood and Blacksmith: Comparative View of …
Mussolini and Italian Fascism
Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th and early 20th century came to a head. Mussolini, the man who most fashioned Italian Fascism, dramatically expressed the unease and the hopes of his age. To what extent can we compare Mussolini's …
Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento
Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento. Edited by Nick Carter (London: Palgrave, 2015), £60.00 (cloth)
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued. The events that brought Italy to open c…
“Without Flinching”
This article examines the development of racial discourses in Italy during the process of unification and in the following years with respect to some of the fundamental issues experienced by and facing the new nation. Anthropologists and criminologists proselytised the new “science” purporting to have discovered a novel hermeneutic for how Italy should be imagined, moulded and propelled into the future. In this article, the test case provided for…
Fascism, Violence, and Italian Colonialism
The foundations of Italy’s colonial empire in Africa were laid when Italy was an aspirational and well-meaning liberal nation. In the 1920s and 1930s, like its predecessor, Mussolini’s Fascist state also looked to Africa to expand. Focusing on the Italian reconquest of Libya in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as the brutal massacre of civilians that took place in Ethiopia in 1937, this article looks into the nature of Italian colonial vio…
Simon Levis Sullam, The Italian Executioners
It is a Fascist Empire. Some points of discussion on the nature of the Italy’s colonialism during the Fascist period
On May 9, 1936, in one of his most celebrated speeches delivered from the balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini announced to Italy and the world that the nation ‘finally had its empire.’ Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa a few days earlier; Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian king of kings, had fled into exile. The Duce’s words were broadcast across the country and throngs gathered in all of Italy’s piazzas where loudspeakers - sixteen had …
History (10 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works)