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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of maps | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Note on the translation | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Time of Idiocy: | |
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| Prologue: The conquered territories | |
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| Italo-German relations in Mediterranean Europe | |
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| From the Axis to the alliance with Germany | |
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| From the Pact of Steel to the end of the parallel war | |
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| The fear of Germany: the Fascists' perception of the Nazis | |
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| The New Mediterranean Order | |
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| The right to found an empire: the new civilization and Fascism's civilizing mission | |
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| Organization of the spazio vitale: the new order | |
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| The new economic order in the European territories of the imperial community | |
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| Albania and the colonial experience as blueprints for construction of the new order | |
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| The inhabitants of the imperial community | |
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| The discrepancy between Fascism's plans for domination and actual occupation | |
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| The territories annexed | |
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| Mussolini, the civil and military authorities and the co-ordination of occupation policies | |
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| Mussolini's role | |
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| The Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
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| The Italian Commission for Armistice with France | |
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| The administrative structures of the annexed territories: civil commissions, governorates and high commissions | |
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| The PNF | |
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| The civil and military courts | |
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| The Banca d'Italia | |
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| The Regio Esercito | |
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| Poer conflicts | |
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| The conquerors | |
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| The aristocracy of the new civilization and the civilizing mission | |
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| The leaders of the revolution and the empire | |
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| The honour code of the Italian officer | |
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| The morale of the soldiers | |
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| Perceptions and relationships between conquerors and the conquered | |
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| The everyday lives of the conquerors and the impact on occupation policies | |
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| Relations with the German soldiers | |
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| Relations with the occupied countries | |
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| Croatia, an occupied ally | |
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| Greece | |
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| France | |
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| Economic valorization and the exploitation of the occupied territories | |
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| Long-term plans: 'valorization' of the imperial community | |
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| Short-term exploitation of the occupied territories | |
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| Greece | |
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| Croatia | |
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| France | |
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| The forced Italianization of the new provinces | |
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| Ascertaining eligibility for citizenship, denationalization, Fascistization and colonization | |
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| The Fascist economy in the annexed provinces | |
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| The forced Albanianization of the provinces of Kosovo and Debar | |
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| Collaboration | |
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| Collaboration in the annexed territories: Slovenia and Dalmatia | |
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| Croatia | |
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| Montenegro | |
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| Greece | |
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| France | |
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| Repression | |
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| The civilian internment camps: their locations and inmates | |
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| Notes on the camps for former Yugoslavian civilians: the concentration camp on the island of Arbe (Rab) | |
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| Notes on other civilian internment camps in the territories militarily occupied by the Second Army | |
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| The Italian concentration camps in Montenegro, Albania, Greece and France | |
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| Policy towards refugees and Jews | |
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| The refugee question | |
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| Italian policies towards Jews | |
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| The militarily occupied territories | |
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| Italiani brava gente? | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Archival sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |