Journeys Through Fascism : : Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars / / Charles Burdett.

During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New D...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Remapping Cultural History ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Writing on Fascist Culture
  • 1. Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • 2. Fascination and Hostility: Two Ambivalent Accounts of Distant Journeys
  • 3. The Other Spaces of Fascist Italy: The Cemetery, the Prison and the Internal Colony
  • 4. Narratives of Settlement in Italian East Africa 1936–1941
  • 5. Itineraries through Melodrama: Italian Correspondents and the Spanish Civil War
  • 6. Representing Rapprochement with Nazi Germany
  • 7. Competing Models of Humanity: Perceptions of Russia and the United States on the Eve of the Second World War
  • Conclusion
  • Index