The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century EuropeFocusing on the history of the "problem of Trieste" and the Italo-Yugoslav border, Glenda Sluga provides a framework for writing the history of places from a perspective sensitive to the politics of identity--whether national, ethnic, or gender. For most of this century, Trieste, a port city on the northeastern Adriatic, has been at the center of key European cultural and political questions. Scholars have commonly attributed Trieste's turbulent past to the intrinsic differences between local Italian and Slav populations. Ways of knowing Trieste and Triestines, and the ways in which that population could know itself, have been couched in narratives that reiterate the antithetical differences between Slav Eastern/Balkan Europeans and Italian Western Europeans, and constitute the East as the West's lesser "other." This book surveys the history of connections between conceptions of difference, identity, and sovereignty during the Hapsburg empire, liberal and Fascist Italy, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War period. It details the historical meaning and value accrued by those narratives of difference over the century, and their impact on concepts of sovereignty in the realms of national and international politics. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Difference Identity and Sovereignty before 1920 | 181 |
Liberalism Fascism and Italian National Identity | 189 |
AntiFascism and Antinationalism 19431945 | 197 |
Gender Ethnicity and the Iron Curtain 19451948 | 210 |
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administration Adriatic Question AFHQ Allied Military AMG's anti-Fascism anti-Fascist Apih argued Army Austro-Marxist authority Balkan boundary region British and American century civiltà claims Cold War Cusin democratic Eastern ethnic ethno-national Europe Fascist foibe forces Free Territory gender German Gorizia groups Habsburg empire historian Ibid identified ideological intellectuals interwar irredentism ISMLVG Istria Italian and Slovene Italian Communist Party Italian nationalist italianità Italians and Slavs Italo-Slovene Italo-Yugoslav border Italy Italy and Yugoslavia Italy's Austrian Heritage Jaksetich Liberation Council Liberation Front Littoral Ljubljana London Milano minorities Monfalcone narratives nazionale Novak organizations partisans policies politica population postwar pro-Italian pro-Yugoslav problem of Trieste Questione di Trieste racial Report representations Risiera Roma Rusinow Salvemini Schiffrer Seton-Watson Slataper Slavic Slovenia socialists South Slav storia struggle Stuparich terra irredenta tion tional Tito's Trieste's Triestine Trst UAIS University Press Valdevit Venezia Giulia Venezia Giulia CLN Vivante Western women World Yugoslav Zone
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Page 240 - Autonomia e decentramento della politica jugoslava alla fine del secondo conflitto mondiale. Un caso specifico: il Comitato regionale di liberazione nazionale per il Litorale sloveno e Trieste,