Lybia as a settler promise: Emanuele Ertola, ‘‘Terra promessa’: migration and settler colonialism in Libya, 1911–1970’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2016 | settler colonial studies blog

Lybia as a settler promise: Emanuele Ertola, ‘‘Terra promessa’: migration and settler colonialism in Libya, 1911–1970’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2016

22Mar16

Abstract: Italy’s colonial expansion is an interesting case study within the settler colonial world. Although discontinuous, settlement was always present as a founding element of its colonial discourse and practice. In Libya – more than in other Italian colonies like little and sparsely populated Eritrea and Somalia, or the short-lived ‘Empire’ of Ethiopia – the birth and development of a settler ideology can be well observed through the decades/

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