Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema

Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema is the first in-depth study of the feature and documentary films made during Mussolini’s dictatorship about Italy’s African and Balkan occupations. The fruit of research in military and film...

Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945

Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 (University of California Press: 2001, 2004) This cultural history of Mussolini’s dictatorship explores the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Combining archival research with the...

Italian Colonialism

Italian Colonialism Italian Colonialism (edited with Mia Fuller, Palgrave, 2005, 2008) Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian imperial...

Italian Mobilities

Italian Mobilities Italian Mobilities, edited with Stephanie Malia Hom. Routledge, 2015. Italy: site of the largest voluntary emigration from any country in recorded world history; favored destination of leisure travellers from the Grand Tour onward; and a bridge...

Gli imperi: dall’antichità all’età contemporanea

Gli imperi: dall’antichità all’età contemporanea Gli imperi: dall’antichità all’età contemporanea (edited, Mulino, 2009) Essays by Anthony Pagden, Frederick Cooper, Jane Burbank, Elio Lo Cascio, Anne Laura Stoler, Franco Cardini, Gigliola Pagano, Antonio Feros, Guido...