Generations of Empire : Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean (Toronto Italian Studies)

Guidi, Andreas

University of Toronto Press（2022/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781487541279
• DDC分類 949.5870904

Full Description

In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became a territory of Italy's empire in 1923 following the Treaty of Lausanne, only one year after Mussolini seized power in Rome. The Ottoman demise corresponded to the expansion of fascist imperialism in the Mediterranean. Both the Ottoman Young Turks and Italian colonial governors invoked the role of a "new generation" of youth in imperial rule.

Generations of Empire investigates the relationship between state and society in light of successive transformations of imperial rule, rethinking Italian colonialism as post-Ottoman history. Andreas Guidi explores how communal life in the town of Rhodes was affected by the transition between these regimes, from an autocratic to a constitutional empire in late Ottoman years to Italian military occupation to fascist annexation. Based on archival sources in five languages from seven different countries, the book investigates generational dynamics in the domains of political activism, the family, education, work and leisure, and mobility. Generations of Empire offers a vivid picture of how a local society navigated large-scale social and political transformations in the modern Mediterranean.

Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates

Introduction  

1. The Emergence of Youth as a Political Category 

2. Where Families and Empires Meet 

3. New Schools, or How Youth Became Students 

4. A "Good Conduct" between Work and Leisure 

5. Generations, Mobility, and Shifting Limits of Belonging 

Epilogue: Imperial Coda