Maura Hametz Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954Condition: NewISBN-10: 086193279XEAN: 9780861932795ISBN: 9780861932795Publisher: Royal Historical SocietyFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/17/2005Description: Traces the changing identity and ownership of the important city of Trieste in a turbulent period.The port of Trieste, standing at a crucial strategic point at the head of the Adriatic, had a turbulent history in the mid-twentieth century. With the disappearance of the Habsburg empire after the First World War, it passed intoItalian hands. During the Second World War, the Nazis reclaimed the city as part of the Reich. In 1945, Trieste slipped through Tito's fingers and was internationalised under Allied military government control, returning to Italian sovereignty in 1954. This book examines Trieste's transformation from an imperial commercial centre at the crossroads of the Italian, German and Balkan worlds to an Italian border city on the southern fringe of the iron curtain. Concentrating on local sources, the book shows how Triestines, renowned for their cosmopolitan Central European affiliations, articulated an Italian civic identity after the First World War, and traces the fitful process ofaffirming Trieste's Italianness over the course of nearly four decades of liberal, Fascist and international rule. It suggests that Italianisation resulted from complicated interactions with Rome and interference by internationalpowers attempting to strengthen western Europe at the edge of the Balkans.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Maura HametzGenre: HistoryBook Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New SeriesItem Weight: 488gRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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