Moderns Abroad

Mia Fuller is Associate Professor in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

'The book fills a quite obvious gap in scholarship on Italian colonialism for scholars of urban history and cultural studies.' - Urban History‘a welcome contribution to the ever growing literature on the architectural history of former colonised territories…. Scholars interested in relating contexts, theories and practices of other colonial powers to the Italian case will find it as stimulating and thought-provoking read.’ – Fabrications‘..the immense value of this book [is] as a comprehensive catalogue of Italian colonial construction, augmented by the author’s nuanced analysis of Italian politics, society, thought, and perception in the first half of the twentieth century.’ – Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians‘This beautifully nuanced and finely illustrated work represents a major contribution to the scholarship of Italian colonial history; at the same time, its rich interdisciplinary framework offers a model of research practice of much broader import.’ – Modern Italy'Moderns Abroad restores the colonial experience to a central position in the process of constructing Italian identity. The author uses an approach that is both chronological and comparative to show how architecture in the Italian colonies - not only the African territories, but also the 'Mediterranean' ones of the Dodecanese Islands and Albania - was conceived from the late nineteenth century to the end of the 1930s.' - Ethnorêma (Italy)'This book… offers the non-specialist in Italian architecture or colonial Africa an excellent introduction to these complex fields…, with a clearly articulated analytical method… and clear narration.' - Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (France)

• Part 1: Contexts 1. History: 1869 – 1943 2. Geographies 3. The Colonial Built Environment Untheorized, 1880s – 1920s Part 2: Theories 4. Modern Italian Architecture, 1910s – 1930s 5. Colonial Modern, 1920s – 1940s 6. Imperial Urbanism, 1936 – 1937 Part 3: Practices 7. The Italian Colonial City: Tripoli 8. Islands of Ethnicity: Planned Agricultural Settlements 9. The Imperial City: Addis Ababa. Epilogue