Italy and Its Eastern Border, 1866-2016 [Hardcover]

This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the profound impact that events on the border had on the core of the country.

Introduction

1. The Kingdom of Italy and the Irredentist Dilemma

2. From Irredentism to Nationalism

3. World War I

4. From the End of the War to the Treaty of Rapallo: 1918-1921

5. Frontier Fascism

6. The Italian Occupation in Slovenia and Dalmatia: 1941-1943

7. The Eclipse of the Italian State: From September 8, 1943 to the Eve of the Yugoslav Occupation of Venezia Giulia

8. From the Race for Trieste to the London Memorandum

9. From the London Memorandum to the End of the Long Post-War Era

10. Conclusion

The main attractions in this project are the high quality of the authors scholarship, the objective and balanced treatment the new work seems to provide, and its inclusiveness. Some of the aspects studied in this book are virtually unknown in the English-language literature& and is the first major work in quite some time to deal with the history of Italys north-eastern frontier in modern times. - Stanley Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Cattaruzza's book provides a fascinating case study of European border nationalism and the making and remaking of boundaries over two centuries. With a transnational perspective, the book is key to the understanding of modern Italian and European history. - Gerald Steinacher, University of Nebraska, USlS±