Francesco Filippi
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From  Arrivals: Colonial Failures—A New Lie for Every Conquest |
In this chapter, Filippi traces Italy’s colonial expansion across Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, China, Libya, and the Dodecanese from the 1880s through the 1940s. | Francesco Filippi | 42 | 2024 | $4.20 Add |
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From  Assorted Information (and Idiocies)Everything you always wanted to know about the Duce…that actually turns out to be false |
The author refutes various stories that have been invented around the figure of Mussolini and been spread around Italy over the years. | Francesco Filippi | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
But We Built Roads for ThemThe Lies, Racism and Amnesia that Bury Italy's Colonial Past |
In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country’s colonial legacy. By reducing the European colonial sweep to Britain and France, Italy has effectively … | Francesco Filippi | 210 | 2024 | View |
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From Chronology, Translator’s Note, and Notes |
This "chapter" includes a chronology of events, translator’s notes, and references. | Francesco Filippi | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From Conclusion |
In this chapter, Filippi examines Italy’s colonial legacy in Libya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, arguing that the failure to confront that history still shapes racial attitudes and foreign policy. | Francesco Filippi | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Contacts: Prejudice from Overseas |
In this chapter, Filippi examines how Italian media and propaganda constructed a “civilizing” narrative to justify colonial expansion across Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, and Ethiopia from … | Francesco Filippi | 38 | 2024 | $3.80 Add |
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From Departures: Unplanned Birth of an Imperial Power |
In this chapter, Filippi traces the origins of Italian colonialism, from the House of Savoy’s slave-trade connections to the creation of the Eritrea colony in 1890. | Francesco Filippi | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From Filippi’s Template for Canada and Other Countries |
This foreword examines Canada’s suppressed colonial history as a British imperial extension from 1763 to 1931, highlighting how figures such as Queen Victoria, Marshal Garnet Wolseley, and … | Francesco Filippi | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From Introduction: Some Parts Went Missing |
In this introduction, Filippi examines Italian colonialism and why the period from 1882 to 1960 remains largely absent from Italy’s collective memory. | Francesco Filippi | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
Mussolini Also Did A Lot of GoodThe Spread of Historical Amnesia |
Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No … | Francesco Filippi | 216 | 2021 | View |
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From Mussolini the BuilderDid the Duce give all Italians a home to live in? |
This chapter examines the dangerous association of the right to a home with Fascism in Italy, which the author calls one of the most effective and impactful posthumous propagandist operations for … | Francesco Filippi | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From Mussolini the Champion of Land ReclamationDid the Duce drain the marshes? |
This chapter looks at the supposed success of Mussolini’s fascists in the area of bonifica, or land reclamation, exploring the actual results and data resulting from their efforts. It also … | Francesco Filippi | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From Mussolini the Condottiere and StatesmanWas the Duce a great leader? |
This chapter looks at Mussolini as a leader and soldier, and looks at the not-so-glorious reality of Fascist Italy’s military achievements. It discusses Italy’s colonial aspirations … | Francesco Filippi | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From Mussolini the EconomistDid the Duce raise the Italian economy to its highest point? |
The author challenges the conception that things “went better” from an economic point of view in Fascist Italy, examining various Facist economic policies. He explores various aspects … | Francesco Filippi | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From Mussolini the FeministDid the Duce improve the status of women in Italy? |
This chapter tackles the premise that the Fascist regime was more open to women’s rights than the regimes that preceded it and have followed it. The author examines how this Facist regime … | Francesco Filippi | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From Mussolini the HumanitarianWas the Duce a "benign" dictator? |
This chapter challenges the notion that Mussolini "wasn’t that bad" as a man and in comparison to other fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. It explores Mussolini’s racist, … | Francesco Filippi | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
