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The fascist invasion of Ethiopia was a turning point in European and global history. The war irreparably damaged the legitimacy of the League of Nations, marked the beginning of the Rome-Berlin Axis, and paved the way to World War II. Yet it is often portrayed as an anachronistic and backward colonial war at a time when European colonial empires were already in crisis after the Wilsonian moment.
Join the Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar to discuss a new interpretation of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis as a modern war that - in Benito Mussolini's mind - constituted a vital priority for the imagined future of fascist imperialism.
