Un laboratorio coloniale nell'Italia post-unitaria: la Società geografica italiana e le origini dell'espansione in Etiopia (1867-1883)
Author(s)
Natili, Daniele
Date Issued
June 24, 2009
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
This final dissertation is about the role played by the Italian Geographical Society in promoting the Italian colonialism in Ethiopia, between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Eighties years of the Nineteen century. It is structured in four chapter. The first one is about the first proposals related to the opportunity of the beginning of an Italian colonial expansion and the discussion which took place about it in the public opinion, inside the commercial sectors and the parliament, between the Sixties and the Seventies years of the century.
A last part of this chapter is dedicated to the examination of the reaction of the Italian government in relation to this discussion.
A second chapter outlines the born of the Italian Geographical Society, its composition, and the analysis of the political balance inside its council. Its aim is to examine when and how a colonial prospective toward Africa began to take place inside the Society.
A third chapter is dedicated to the project elaborated by the president of the Society Cesare Correnti, Orazio Antinori and other colonial promoters, to take diplomatic and commercial contacts with Menelik the king the of Shoa, in Ethiopia.
A final part is about the unsuccessful temptation of the Italian government to begin a commerce between the bay of Assab and the Scioa, after having signed a treaty of friendship and commerce with Menelik, and in involving the Italian commercial and industrial forces in taking contact with the local merchants, coming from Shoa.
The entire dissertation is constructed on two different but complementary plan of analysis: the action of the Italian Geographical Society on the Italian political class and the government, on one side, and the effect on public opinion, on the other one.
The work is based on the documentation of the historical archive of the Italian Geographical Society, in the Archive of ex-Ministero dell’Africa Italiana, of the Ministero degli Affari Esteri, and of the correspondence between some of the members of the council of the Society, in the Museo del Risorgimento di Milano.
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Società, istituzioni e sistemi politici europei (19.-20. secolo)
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