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Italian ColonialismThe Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War (1935–1936)

Italian Colonialism: The Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War (1935–1936) [The Italian-Ethiopian war of 1935–1936 was the first war after 1918 (and the first colonial war) in which the Italian Air Force was employed on a large scale (450 airplanes) and had a significant role in military operations. But studies on the subject have been inadequate. The many works that appeared after the conflict were largely propagandistic, and these were not followed up with systematic research after World War II. This gap is due both to a decline of Italian interest in Italy’s lost Empire and to the long scholarly monopoly exercised by ex-colonial institutions, which have been little inclined to undertake a critical examination of this recent past.1 Historians connected with the military archives are just beginning to study the colonial experience in general and the war against Ethiopia in particular, as military and colonial archives were not opened to outside scholars until the 1970s.2 Above all, studies of the Air Force’s role were delayed by Italy’s unwillingness to admit to its large-scale use of gas in the war.3 The use of chemical weapons was loudly denounced at the time by world public opinion, but it was denied so stubbornly by fascist propaganda and postwar Italian censorship that the subject became intractably taboo.4] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismThe Italian Air Force in the Ethiopian War (1935–1936)

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Rochat, Giorgio
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
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978-0-230-60636-4
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37 –46
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10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_4
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Abstract

[The Italian-Ethiopian war of 1935–1936 was the first war after 1918 (and the first colonial war) in which the Italian Air Force was employed on a large scale (450 airplanes) and had a significant role in military operations. But studies on the subject have been inadequate. The many works that appeared after the conflict were largely propagandistic, and these were not followed up with systematic research after World War II. This gap is due both to a decline of Italian interest in Italy’s lost Empire and to the long scholarly monopoly exercised by ex-colonial institutions, which have been little inclined to undertake a critical examination of this recent past.1 Historians connected with the military archives are just beginning to study the colonial experience in general and the war against Ethiopia in particular, as military and colonial archives were not opened to outside scholars until the 1970s.2 Above all, studies of the Air Force’s role were delayed by Italy’s unwillingness to admit to its large-scale use of gas in the war.3 The use of chemical weapons was loudly denounced at the time by world public opinion, but it was denied so stubbornly by fascist propaganda and postwar Italian censorship that the subject became intractably taboo.4]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Chemical Weapon; Italian Force; Northern Front; Northern Theater; Popular Resistance

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