The Libyan war, 1911-1912
By: edited by Luca Micheletta and Andrea Ungari
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781443848374
Subjects: Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912; Political aspects; Diplomatic history; Influence
Description: The war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire for possession of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania was a crucial event both for Italian domestic and foreign policy and for the contemporary European balance of power. For Italian society the Libyan conflict was in many ways a dress rehearsal for the First World War. The propaganda campaign for the occupation of Libya, orchestrated around the myth of the "Grande Italia" and the "Grande proletaria" had an important impact on the Italian political system, even more than the military operations, testing its stability and leading to violent debate not only between the parties, but also inside the parties themselves. The essays brought together in this book illustrate the attitude of the political forces that were the main supporters of the Italian intervention in Libya, and the international context in which the war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire came about. Using new sources or re-reading the sources already known with the insight gained from the passage of a hundred years, the authors reflect on a conflict that had profound repercussions for Italian and European politics and contributed to ending the Belle Epoque, raising in the minds of both the Italian and European public the specter of a new war in Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Luca Micheletta and Andrea Ungari; title: The Italian liberals and the Italo-Turkish War / Sandro Rogari; title: The role of the Italian monarchy in the war in Libya / Andrea Ungari; title: The war in Libya and the Italian nationalism / Giuseppe Parlato; title: The Libyan War and Italian modernity : a troublesome relation / Gianluca Pastori; title: Italian diplomacy and the Libyan enterprise / Gian Paolo Ferraioli; title: A half-hearted friendship : France and the Italian conquest of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica 1911-12 / Luciano Monzali; title: The war in Libya and Russia / Alessandro Duce; title: The United Kingdom and the Italo-Turkish War in British documents / Massimiliano Cricco; title: Between two empires : Tripoli, Spain and the Ottomans in the Mediterranean, 1580-1911 / Wayne H. Bowen; title: Issues raised by the occupation of the Dodecanese : thoughts on the foreign policy of liberal Italy / Luca Micheletta; title: The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern question / Francesco Caccamo.