The Reasons for Underdevelopment The Case of Decolonisation in Somal
The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly later than the more mature historiography of other Euro
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Donatella Strangio
The Reasons for Underdevelopment The Case of Decolonisation in Somaliland
Prof. Dr. Donatella Strangio Sapienza University of Rome Faculty of Economics Department of Methods and Economics Territory and Finance via Castro Laurenziano 9 00161 Rome Italy [email protected]
ISSN 1431-1933 ISBN 978-3-7908-2777-4 e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2778-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2778-1 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940162 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Physica-Verlag is a brand of Springer Springer is part of Springer-ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In the general oblivion of Italian colonial history, each scientific contribution that returns to investigate the meaning, terms and consequences of Italy’s presence in Africa adds a piece to the mosaic. The late, and in many ways inconclusive, colonial history of Italy developed along the axis running from Tripoli towards the Horn of Africa. And Somalia takes up a central position in the African continent in Italian historical revisitations. In fact, it is in this country, along with Eritrea, that the Italian colonial imprint was the greatest and most constant, because here, more than anywhere else, the dross of history has shaped a territory, a people, a present and a future that still bears the signs of the encounter with Italy’s search for a “place in the sun.” It is therefore important to start from Somalia for a historiography that is cleared of any remaining elements of the anachronistic propaganda of “Italians – nice people”, so that the colonial relationship, made of lights and shades, encounters and clashes, dreams and hopes, but also failures and violence inflicted or endured, can be investigated in depth by looking at situations and archives that have not yet been analyzed with care and rigour. Professor Donatella Strangio opens up new perspectives on African historiography and the economic history of Somalia through sources that, hitherto, have been explored very little or not at all. She has immersed herself in the archives of the Bank o
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