Francesco Filippi
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A 2019 Italian Bestseller
"an antidote to all the nonsense still circulating about fascism.... Filippi is almost surgical in the way he reestablishes the context." La Repubblica Book of the Month
"In the existing climate, Francesco Filippi's scalpel is of utmost importance" Le Monde
"Francesco Filippi's book is very timely and relevant ... a lesson on a past that simply doesn't go away." Corriere Della Sera
Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi...
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In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country's colonial legacy. By reducing European colonial history to Britain and France, Italy has effectively concealed an enduring phenomenon in its history that lasted close to 80 years (1882 to 1960). It also blots out the history of the countries it colonized in Northeastern Africa.
Italian colonial history began in 1882 with the acquisition of Assab Bay and came to a...
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