Description: This book focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment.
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'The book fills a quite obvious gap in scholarship on Italian colonialism for scholars of urban history and cultural studies.' - Urban History
'a welcome contribution to the ever growing literature on the architectural history of former colonised territories.... Scholars interested in relating contexts, theories and practices of other colonial powers to the Italian case will find it as stimulating and thought-provoking read.' - Fabrications
'..the immense value of this book [is] as a comprehensive catalogue of Italian colonial construction, augmented by the author's nuanced analysis of Italian politics, society, thought, and perception in the first half of the twentieth century.' - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
'This beautifully nuanced and finely illustrated work represents a major contribution to the scholarship of Italian colonial history; at the same time, its rich interdisciplinary framework offers a model of research practice of much broader import.' - Modern Italy
'This book... offers the non-specialist in Italian architecture or colonial Africa an excellent introduction to these complex fields..., with a clearly articulated analytical method... and clear narration.' - Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (France)
"Moderns Abroad is a methodologically complex, richly illustrated and extremely well researched study". - European History Quarterly