The Construction of Fascist Libya
Author | : Krystyna Clara Von Henneberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Krystyna Clara Von Henneberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian McLaren |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780295985428 |
To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan culture brought its systems of transportation and accommodation, as well as new hierarchies of political and social control. Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya shows how Italian authorities used the contradictory forces of tradition and modernity to both legitimize their colonial enterprise and construct a vital tourist industry. Although most tourists sought to escape the trappings of the metropole in favor of experiencing "difference," that difference was almost always framed, contained, and even defined by Western culture. McLaren argues that the "modern" and the "traditional" were entirely constructed by colonial authorities, who balanced their need to project an image of a modern and efficient network of travel and accommodation with the necessity of preserving the characteristic qualities of the indigenous culture. What made the tourist experience in Libya distinct from that of other tourist destinations was the constant oscillation between modernizing and preservation tendencies. The movement between these forces is reflected in the structure of the book, which proceeds from the broadest level of inquiry into the Fascist colonial project in Libya to the tourist organization itself, and finally into the architecture of the tourist environment, offering a way of viewing state-driven modernization projects and notions of modernity from a historical and geographic perspective. This is an important book for architectural historians and for those interested in colonial and postcolonial studies, as well as Italian studies, African history, literature, and cultural studies more generally.
Author | : Vittoria Capresi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788873954965 |
Author | : Ruth Ben-Ghiat |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253015669 |
Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.
Author | : Eileen Ryan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190673796 |
"This book examines debates over the best methods for colonial rule in Italian Libya as a self-reflexive process that tell us more about the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy than about Muslim North Africa"--
Author | : Emilio Gentile |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Emilio Gentile decodes Italy culturally, going beyond political and social dimensions that explain Italy's Fascist past in terms of class, or the cynicism of its leaders, or modernizing and expansionist ambitions.
Author | : Roberta Pergher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108419747 |
The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.
Author | : Brian L. McLaren |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2021-02-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 900445618X |
In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime.
Author | : D. Medina Lasansky |
Publisher | : Berg |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004-05-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ali Abdullatif Ahmida |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438428936 |
The Making of Modern Libya is a thorough examination of the social, cultural, and historical background of modern Libya. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida examines the reaction of the ordinary Libyan people to colonialism and nationalism, from the early nineteenth century through the end of anticolonial resistance, to the rise of the modern Libyan state in 1951. Weaving together insights drawn from Arabic, French, English, and Italian sources, he challenges Eurocentric theories of social change that ignore the internal dynamics of native social history. Among other things, he shows that Sufi Islam, tribal military organization, and oral traditions were crucial in the fight against colonialism. The political and cultural legacy of the resistance has been powerful, strengthening Libyan nationalism and leading to the revival of strong attachments to Islam. The memory of this period has not yet faded, and appreciation of this background is essential to understanding modern Libya. This new edition also investigates Libya's postcolonial nationalist policies, bringing the argument up to the present.