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This book examines the violation of property rights in the two
World Wars and in the interwar period centering on three keywords:
sequestration, confiscation and restitution. Political conflicts,
regime change, revolutions and wars make not only people but also
their property vulnerable. Plunder and confiscation were common
ways of dealing with the enemy - either internal or external - in
many conflicts, conquests and occupations during the Old Regime,
and resurfaced as crucial political weapons in both the First and
the Second World Wars, with disruptive effects. In the two World
Wars and the interwar period, sequestration and confiscation grew
in scale and scope, reaching an unprecedented magnitude because of
three driving forces that were frequently intertwined: nationalism,
socialism and antisemitism. Confiscation was a political weapon
that furthered different aims. It helped to make the expulsion of
enemy subjects irreversible. It was an instrument to exclude from
the civic body those who did not belong - the 'internal enemies' -
and to prevent undesirable people from acquiring citizenship. It
also deprived “enemy aliens” of economic means during the
conflict. Bringing together new historical research on Serbia,
Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany
and Austria, the chapters address state violence, law and human
rights, as well as the entanglement between citizenship,
nationality and property. It will be of great interest to those who
study minorities, borders, migration, social and economic history
as well as European History. This book was originally published as
a special issue of European Review of History.
This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or
Italianita - through migration history. It focuses on the
interaction between Italians circulating around the world, and
their relationship with Italy from a political and cultural
perspective. Answering the important question of how migration
affects Italianness, the authors explore the ways in which migrants
retained their Italian culture, customs and practices during and
after their travels. Spanning a long period from the Risorgimento
up until the 1960s, the book sheds light on the institutions and
social structures that contributed to the construction of cultural
links between Italian migrants and their country of origin. Not
only broad in its temporal scope, the volume covers a wide
geographic area, examining the lives of Italian migrants in North
America, South America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Bringing together a wealth of research on Italians, alongside the
different migratory routes taken by these men and women, this book
provides new insights into Italian culture and seeks to strengthen
our understanding of Italian migration history.
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