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dc.contributor.authorTURTUR, Noelle
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-20T10:24:48Z
dc.date.available2024-08-20T10:24:48Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationBusiness history review, 2024, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 165-202en
dc.identifier.issn0007-6805
dc.identifier.issn2044-768X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/77115
dc.descriptionPublished online: 05 August 2024en
dc.description.abstractThis article traces the evolution of Italian strategies for imperial expansion from the decades after unification—when many came to believe that imperial conquest would more advantageously position Italy in the liberal capitalist global economy—to the height of the fascist colonial project in the Horn of Africa—when the fascists tried to break with the liberal global economy and construct a new, radical mercantilist and corporatist empire. Taking inspiration from their predecessors, the fascist regime extracted capital, resources, and labor from Africans and Italians to finance its war against the Ethiopian empire and its colonization of the Horn. While the war temporarily stimulated Italian industry, employed hundreds of thousands of work-hungry Italians, and consolidated the regime’s many corporatist institutions, it drained Italy’s reserves and alarmed the Duce’s allies among Italy’s industrial and financial elite. The regime, thus, shifted strategies, focusing on reducing the cost of the empire by exploiting African workers, eliminating inefficient small enterprises, and creating vast concessions for Italian industrialists. Conquering new territories and markets, acquiring a variety of primary resources, and empowering industry, Mussolini and the radical mercantilist-corporatists aimed to resolve Italy’s perceived under-development, by placing Italy at the center of a great fascist Eurafrican empire that could dictate the terms of its engagement with the rest of the world.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)en
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofBusiness history reviewen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
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dc.titleRadical mercantilism and fascist Italy’s East African empireen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0007680524000138
dc.identifier.volume98en
dc.identifier.startpage165en
dc.identifier.endpage202en
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