The first full-length study of how Italian colonialism in Africa used the history of Roman imperialism on the continent to legitimise and promote its own imperial endeavours. Agbamu looks at a broad range of cultural documents to examine how the...
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The first full-length study of how Italian colonialism in Africa used the history of Roman imperialism on the continent to legitimise and promote its own imperial endeavours. Agbamu looks at a broad range of cultural documents to examine how the discourse of colonialism as 'the return of Rome' to land rightfully Italian was disseminated
Introduction1: The Fall of Italia Risorta: Ethiopia, Roman Africa, and the Invention of Italy2: 'There, Too, Is Rome': The Roman Empire and the Conquest of Libya3: Modernizing Antiquity: Decadence and Futurism in Roman Africa4: Technology and Power: Screening Imperialism in Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914)5: Redeeming Italia Irredenta: Fascisms March on Africa6: Italia tandem imperium habet suum: Fascist Italys Roman Empire7: Carmine Gallone's Scipione l'Africano: Restaging Rome, Reincarnating Romanità8: The Arco dei Fileni: The Realization of Romanità in Africa9: The Decline and Fall of the Fascist Empire10: Conclusion: Memories of Mare Nostrum
