The Italians of Dalmatia : : From Italian Unification to World War I / / Luciano Monzali.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Monzali, Luciano,
• TeilnehmendeR: Evans, Shanti.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Located on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, the area known as Dalmatia, part of modern-day Croatia and Montenegro, was part of the Austrian Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dalmatia was a multicultural region that had traditionally been politically and economically dominated by its Italian minority. In The Italians of Dalmatia, Luciano Monzali argues that the vast majority of local Italians were loyal to and supportive of Habsburg rule, desiring only a larger degree of local autonomy. An Italian national consciousness developed only in response to pressure from Slavic national movements and was facilitated by the emergence of a large, unified, and independent Italian state.Using little-known Italian, Austrian, and Dalmatian sources, Monzali explores the political history of Dalmatia between 1848 and 1915, with a focus on the Italian minority, on Austrian-Italian relations and on the foreign policy of the Italian state towards the region and its peoples.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Slav-Italian Nation: The Italian Dalmatians and the Birth of Autonomist Liberalism -- 2. The War of 1866 and the Emergence of the Italian National Question in Dalmatia -- 3. The Italians of Dalmatia Between the Habsburg Empire and Italy from 1896 to 1915 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places