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Late nineteenth-century Italy in Africa : the Livraghi Affair and the waning of civilizing aspirations /
"Civilizing Africa"--Bringing European institutions and society to Africa - was a common rationale for nineteenth-century European expansions into that continent. However, in March 1891 a news correspondent accused officials in Italy's Red Sea colony of having ordered, without trial,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Editorial Notes; On transliterations; On newspaper names; Chapter One; Chapter Two; "Horrible revelations"; Corazzini and his aims; Livraghi's accusations and "confessions"; The rhetoric of scandal; The rhetoric of skepticism; The Chamber reaction; The competing colonial policies; Chapter Three; The press pursuit of el-Akkad; Italian journalism and colonial reportage; The Call to "Civilize Africa"; Chapter Four; The treaty impasse: the "Ethiopian joke"; Famine reportage; General Baldissera; Fall 1891 and the changed debate; Chapter Five
- The corruption trial's collapseThe murder trial's admissions; The investigating commission's rebuke; The Chamber as the last resort; Chapter Six; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index