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From the Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean: Ideas and Agents of Italian Colonization in South America, c.1840 to c.1880 - Italian Mediterranean Colloquium

Flyer for "From The Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean" event, with text details over an idyllic photo of sky and trees.
February 8, 2018
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
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2nd Floor Common Room, The Heyman Center

Presenter: Lucy Riall, EUI Florence

Respondent: Mark Mazower, Columbia University

Moderator: Konstantina Zanou, Columbia University

This paper will consider how the ‘turn’ to global history might alter our approach to modern Italy and its colonies.  With its emphasis on transnational trends, and the themes of mobility and connectivity, the approach has much to offer scholars of Italian colonialism but so far has had relatively little impact in reshaping the field and introducing new themes of research. Focusing on Italians overseas in the age of nation and empire, this paper will seek to explain what the study of Italy might contribute to the burgeoning field of global history. 

Part of the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium series.

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Presented by the Department of Italian and co-sponsored by The European Institute & The Heyman Center for the Humanities.