This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolinis imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently.
This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolinis imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently.
The Dodecanese archipelago is often absent from histories of Italian fascist colonialism, as Italian territories in East Africa, Libya, and the Balkans have figured more centrally in discussions of how nationalism and later fascism relied on the empire to promote discourses of national renewal and regeneration. Over the past twenty years, a new wave of research has emerged, animated by the opening of previously closed state archives in various countries. This volumes international contributors provide fresh perspectives on a topic frequently mythologized as a golden period of social and cultural intimacy among 20th-century Greeks, Turks, and Jews. Themes include the fascist adaptation in the islands of Ottoman imperial governance, programs of infrastructure, development, and administration in the Dodecanese, Jewish history and memory in Rhodes, and the place of the islands in larger regional tensions of the interwar period.
The volume will be of interest to scholars of Italian history, modern colonialism, fascism, Mediterranean Studies, the end of the Ottoman Empire, and Sephardic Jewry.
Introduction
1. A Hole in the Maps of International Humanitarian
Institutions in the Near East: The Absence of the Dodecanese (19151924)
2.
Tourism and Fascism: The Cultural Capital of Rhodes
3. Ottoman-Italian
Imperial Continuities in Rhodes: State and Society in the Early
Twentieth-Century Mediterranean
4. Fascist Modernity and Ottoman Afterlives
in the Eastern Mediterranean
5. The Assimilating Sea: Italian Rule and
Mediterranean Mobilizations in the Aegean
6. Detached yet Connected: Life and
Tension Between the Dodecanese Islands and the Turkish Mainland in the
Interwar Period
7. The Rabbinical Seminary in Italian Rhodes, 19281938: A
Fascist Project
8. Reflections on the Juderia: Remembering, Memory-Making and
History in the Lost World of Jewish Rhodes
9. Italokratia and the
Privileged Islands: Factions and Social Protest on Kastellorizo
Valerie McGuire is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Italys Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1895945, and other articles on modern Italian history and culture.
Aron Rodrigue is Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous publications on Sephardi Jews in the modern era, with a special focus on the Ottoman Empire.
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