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Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

Mussolini's Conquest of Ethiopia as Total Infrastructural War (1934-1936)


October 28, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

Mussolini's Conquest of Ethiopia as Total Infrastructural War (1934-1936)


October 28, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
October 28, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

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 for its inaugural event 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.

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