Vanda Wilcox
Biographic Data
| ID | 641751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanda Wilcox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilcox |
| SIGNATURE | WILCOX V |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Cabot University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5884-6282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Turning points and transformations in contemporary Italy
This special issue stems from the 2022 Association for the Study of Modern Italy conference, reflecting on key turning points in modern Italian history through the lens of 'small histories'. Drawing on contemporary international historiography and the contributions in the present volume, this introduction discusses how microhistorical, biographical and related approaches may challenge or refine dominant interpretations in that they abstract from …
Teaching the difficult heritage of Italian Fascism
In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. To date, however, there has been little research carried out into the methods we use to teach the history of Fascism in particular. In this short article, we outline how we have applied problem-based learning and scenario-based lea…
Marco Rovinello, Fra servitù e servizio. Storia della leva in Italia dall’Unità alla Grande guerra. (I libri di Viella, Vol. 341.) Rom, Viella 2020
Article Marco Rovinello, Fra servitù e servizio. Storia della leva in Italia dall’Unità alla Grande guerra. (I libri di Viella, Vol. 341.) Rom, Viella 2020 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 3)
The Italian Empire and the Great War
The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy’s decision for war in 1915 built on its imperial ambitions from the late 19th century onwards and its conquest of Libya in 1911–12. The Italian empire was conceived both in conventional terms as a system of settlement or exploitation colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an informal global empire of emigran…
Imperial Thinking and Colonial Combat in the Early Twentieth-Century Italian Army
Although designed primarily as a national institution, between the 1880s and the First World War the Italian army's military operations were all in the colonial sphere. By 1914, Italy claimed an extensive empire in East and North Africa. How far did imperialism shape Italian military culture and institutions? I identify ‘imperial thinking’ across nine areas of army activity. Italian colonialism relied on a pervasive narrative of Italian benevolen…
Morale
Morale is a perennially popular topic in the field of military history, yet each new study proposes a new definition of the term. Is it a mood, a feeling, a set of actions—individual or collective? Is it a cause or consequence of discipline? Given that each author’s definition of morale is subtly different from the next, one may well wonder how an idea, the importance of which is so universally agreed, remains so poorly defined. Daniel Ussishkin …
F rancesco F rizzera . Cittadini dimezzati
When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, the city of Trento in the southern Tyrol was one of its key objectives. The patriotic rhetoric of “liberating” the Trentino region retained symbolic value long after the end of the First World War, making the wartime experiences of both city and region a subject of enduring national interest within Italy. An extensive historiography of the local people, the Trentini, and of the war has devel…
Italy in the Era of the Great War
"In Italy in the Era of the Great War, Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country's decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and concluding with the rise of post-war social and political unrest, the volume traces domestic and foreign policy, the economics of the war effort, the history of m…
Landscapes of the First World War
Morale and the Italian Army During the First World War
Un paese in guerra. La mobilitazione civile in Italia (1914–1918)
Morale and Battlefield Performance at Caporetto, 1917
How does morale relate to tactical and operational failure? Is it a cause or an effect? Using the Italian Army at Caporetto as a case study, this article explores the cyclical relationship between battlefield performance and morale. Combining quantitative analysis of army statistics with qualitative analysis of various official and private sources, this article analyses morale before the battle and during its opening phase. Italian morale appears…
‘Weeping tears of blood’
Emotion plays a vital role in any rounded history of warfare, both as an element in morale and as component in understanding the soldier's experience. Theories on the functioning of emotions vary, but an exploration of Italian soldiers' emotions during the First World War highlights both cognitive and cultural elements in the ways emotions were experienced and expressed. Although Italian stereotypes of passivity and resignation dominated contempo…
Turning points and transformations in contemporary Italy
This special issue stems from the 2022 Association for the Study of Modern Italy conference, reflecting on key turning points in modern Italian history through the lens of 'small histories'. Drawing on contemporary international historiography and the contributions in the present volume, this introduction discusses how microhistorical, biographical and related approaches may challenge or refine dominant interpretations in that they abstract from …
‘Weeping tears of blood’
Emotion plays a vital role in any rounded history of warfare, both as an element in morale and as component in understanding the soldier's experience. Theories on the functioning of emotions vary, but an exploration of Italian soldiers' emotions during the First World War highlights both cognitive and cultural elements in the ways emotions were experienced and expressed. Although Italian stereotypes of passivity and resignation dominated contempo…
Un paese in guerra. La mobilitazione civile in Italia (1914–1918)
Morale and Battlefield Performance at Caporetto, 1917
How does morale relate to tactical and operational failure? Is it a cause or an effect? Using the Italian Army at Caporetto as a case study, this article explores the cyclical relationship between battlefield performance and morale. Combining quantitative analysis of army statistics with qualitative analysis of various official and private sources, this article analyses morale before the battle and during its opening phase. Italian morale appears…
Morale and the Italian Army During the First World War
Italy in the Era of the Great War
"In Italy in the Era of the Great War, Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country's decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and concluding with the rise of post-war social and political unrest, the volume traces domestic and foreign policy, the economics of the war effort, the history of m…
Landscapes of the First World War
Morale
Morale is a perennially popular topic in the field of military history, yet each new study proposes a new definition of the term. Is it a mood, a feeling, a set of actions—individual or collective? Is it a cause or consequence of discipline? Given that each author’s definition of morale is subtly different from the next, one may well wonder how an idea, the importance of which is so universally agreed, remains so poorly defined. Daniel Ussishkin …
F rancesco F rizzera . Cittadini dimezzati
When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, the city of Trento in the southern Tyrol was one of its key objectives. The patriotic rhetoric of “liberating” the Trentino region retained symbolic value long after the end of the First World War, making the wartime experiences of both city and region a subject of enduring national interest within Italy. An extensive historiography of the local people, the Trentini, and of the war has devel…
Marco Rovinello, Fra servitù e servizio. Storia della leva in Italia dall’Unità alla Grande guerra. (I libri di Viella, Vol. 341.) Rom, Viella 2020
Article Marco Rovinello, Fra servitù e servizio. Storia della leva in Italia dall’Unità alla Grande guerra. (I libri di Viella, Vol. 341.) Rom, Viella 2020 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 3)
The Italian Empire and the Great War
The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy’s decision for war in 1915 built on its imperial ambitions from the late 19th century onwards and its conquest of Libya in 1911–12. The Italian empire was conceived both in conventional terms as a system of settlement or exploitation colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an informal global empire of emigran…
Imperial Thinking and Colonial Combat in the Early Twentieth-Century Italian Army
Although designed primarily as a national institution, between the 1880s and the First World War the Italian army's military operations were all in the colonial sphere. By 1914, Italy claimed an extensive empire in East and North Africa. How far did imperialism shape Italian military culture and institutions? I identify ‘imperial thinking’ across nine areas of army activity. Italian colonialism relied on a pervasive narrative of Italian benevolen…
Teaching the difficult heritage of Italian Fascism
In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. To date, however, there has been little research carried out into the methods we use to teach the history of Fascism in particular. In this short article, we outline how we have applied problem-based learning and scenario-based lea…
Turning points and transformations in contemporary Italy
This special issue stems from the 2022 Association for the Study of Modern Italy conference, reflecting on key turning points in modern Italian history through the lens of 'small histories'. Drawing on contemporary international historiography and the contributions in the present volume, this introduction discusses how microhistorical, biographical and related approaches may challenge or refine dominant interpretations in that they abstract from …
History (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)