Italy and the Suez Canal, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cold War : a Mediterranean history /: a Mediterranean history. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Barbara Curli.
• Editors: Curli, Barbara
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Italy and the Suez Canal: Historical and historiographical passages in the making of a Euro-Mediterranean region - Barbara Curli Part I. Modern infrastructures for a modern state: the Suez Canal and Italian unification2 Camillo Cavour, the Suez Canal and the path to Italian unification - Barbara Curli 3 Italian infrastructures and the opening of the Suez Canal - Andrea Giuntini 4 The Suez Canal and Italian port cities: local competition and global ambitions within a nation in the making (1850s-1890s) - Giovanni Cristina 5 The Suez Canal and the Italian sailing fleet: expectations, problems and alternatives routes (1869-1914) - Leonardo Scavino 6 A Venice of the Desert: The successes and failures of the Suez Canal in revitalizing Mediterranean trade - Kevin Tang Part II. Italian cultures and the Canal project7 Luigi Negrelli (1799-1858): a Tyrolean engineer at the heart of the Suez Canal project - Andrea Leonardi and Alice Riegler 8 'Qui dell'avvenire si tratta dell'Italia': The Suez Canal as an opportunity. Giuseppe Sapeto and his political pamphlet L'Italia ed il Canale di Suez - Filippo Gattai Tacchi 9 The Trieste-Suez connection: how businessman and explorers reshaped the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries - Giovanni Modaffari10 'Iddio si serve mirabilmente dell'uomo per adempire i suoi altissimi fini': the Suez Canal in the Italian Catholic Press in the 19th Century - Carlo Bovolo Part III. Colonial spaces, colonial encounters11 Assab and the Suez Canal: the root of Italian Imperialism in the Red Sea - Luca Castiglioni 12 Credit, debt and power: Italian foreign-policy making in the heavily-indebted Muslim-Mediterranean countries (1867-1914) - Giampaolo Conte 13 Sneaky neutrality: weapons smuggling in Egypt during the Italo-Ottoman war over Libya, 1911-1912 - Andreas Guidi Part IV. Imperial strategies in the Mediterranean, from the mid-1860s to the Second World War14 The Italian Navy and Suez: from opportunity to obsession (1861-1943) - Fabio De Ninno 15 Connecting the two seas: Italian and Ottoman diplomacies in the Suez-Red Sea area - Giorgio Ennas 16 When two worlds collide: Britain, Italy and the Suez Canal in the Fascist era - Steven Morewood Part V. Work and Migration17 The Suez Canal in conversations through time: Evangelical and Waldensian mobility in the Mediterranean - Paola Schellenbaum 18 'Their Parents are all Sailors and Blue-Collar Workers': the schools of the Suez Canal in the late nineteenth century - Olga Verlato19 Ordinary People in Extraordinary Contexts: Italian and Greek Personnel of the Suez Canal Company in Moments of Crisis during the 20th century - Angelos Dalachanis Part VI. Italy and Suez in times of Cold War20 Leaving Egypt: rethinking 1956 through Italian departures - Joseph John Viscomi 21 Italian Catholics and the Suez Crisis: between neo-Atlanticism, pacifism and third worldism - Massimo De Giuseppe 22 Italy and the closure of the Suez Canal (1967-1975) - Gaetano La Nave Afterword - Fred Cooper.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 327.4506215; Italy--History; History -- General; Technology & Engineering -- History; Political Science -- History & Theory; History; History of engineering & technology; Political science & theory; International relations--History; Technology; History; World politics; History -- Europe -- Italy; European history; Italy -- Foreign relations -- Egypt; Egypt -- Foreign relations -- Italy; Suez Canal (Egypt) -- History -- 19th century; Suez Canal (Egypt) -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030882556
• Related ISBNs: 9783030882549
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