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Il saggio ricostruisce la storia di Mario Buda, amico di Sacco e Vanzetti, indicato da una parte della storiografia statunitense di essere l'autore della strage di Wall Street del 1920. Mario Buda, tornato in Italia poco dopo, da anarchico intransigente diventa informatore dell'Ovra. Fino alla fine dei suoi giorni, avvenuta nel 1963, non ha mai detto quello che sapeva sul caso Sacco e Vanzetti.
Modern Italy
Italianness in the United States between migrants’ informal gardening practices and agricultural diplomacy (1880–1912)
2021 •
Gilberto Mazzoli
During the Age of Mass Migration more than four million Italians reached the United States. The experience of Italians in US cities has been widely explored: however, the study of how migrants adjusted in relation to nature and food production is a relatively recent concern. Due to a mixture of racism and fear of political radicalism, Italians were deemed to be undesirable immigrants in East Coast cities and American authorities had long perceived Italian immigrants as unclean, unhealthy and carriers of diseases. As a flipside to this narrative, Italians were also believed to possess a ‘natural’ talent for agriculture, which encouraged Italian diplomats and politicians to propose the establishment of agricultural colonies in the southern United States. In rural areas Italians could profit from their agricultural skills and finally turn into ‘desirable immigrants’. The aim of this paper is to explore this ‘emigrant colonialism’ through the lens of environmental history, comparing the...
Journal of Contemporary History
Dealing with ‘Returns’: African Decolonization and Repatriation to Italy, 1947–70
alessandra vigo
The repatriation of many citizens to Italy from the former colonies, and from other Italian communities in Africa, between the Second World War and the late 1960s, had a significant impact on the country. Compatriots coming back from Africa forced Italian institutions to deal with problems of reception and resettlement and made the consequences of African decolonization evident in the peninsula. Looking at three different cases of repatriation, the return of settlers from Italian ex-colonies (Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia), and the return of Italians from Tunisia and Egypt, this article aims to display the political strategies enacted by post-war Italy in order to cope with citizens returning from Africa. The comparative approach highlights the political reasons that guided the State's action during the long repatriation. Italian governments had different attitudes towards the returnees, depending on the purposes of domestic and foreign policy but also on their places of ...
The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
The World Refugees Made (open access)
2020 •
Pamela Ballinger
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/113081 Open access thanks to NEH Open Book Grant
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The Routledge History of Western Empires
New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876–1905
2014 •
Mark Choate
Journal of Religion and Society
'The Leprosy of Lynch Law': A Jesuit Exchange in La Civiltà Cattolica"
2020 •
Julia Fleming
In 1891-1892, the Roman Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica published three texts addressing the morality of lynching in the United States-an exchange prompted by the lynching of eleven Italians/Italian Americans in New Orleans. While reflecting the traditional restriction of capital punishment to public authorities that characterizes Catholic social thought, the anonymous participants in the journal's exchange also raise considerations about the rights and social standings of the victim. In addition, the exchange illustrates the perils of crisis exceptionalism as an excuse to ignore the rule of law.
“New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876-1905,” in The Routledge History of Western Empires, edited by Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie (Oxford/New York: Routledge, 2014), 118-134.
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Citizenship and Military Service in Italian-American Relations, 1901-1918
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Bahar Gürsel
Modern Italy
From immigrants to emigrants: Salesian education and the failed integration of Italians in Egypt, 1937-1960
2017 •
Annalaura Turiano
With Italy’s entry into the Second World War, Anglo-Egyptian authorities repatriated Italian diplomats from Egypt, arrested around 5,000 Italians, and sequestered both personal and business accounts. Italian institutions were indefinitely closed, including the Italian state schools. Hope for a future in Egypt among the roughly 60,000 Italian residents faded. The Salesian missionary schools, whose goal since the late nineteenth century had been to inculcate nationalist-religious sentiment in Italy’s emigrants, remained the only active Italian educational institution by claiming Vatican protection. As such, the missionary schools assumed a central role in the lives of many young Italians. After the war, these same young Italians began to depart Egypt en masse, in part driven by the possibilities opened up by their vocational training. Building on diplomatic, institutional and private archives, this article demonstrates how the Salesian missionary schools attempted and failed to integr...
