Autore
Piras, Mauro

Titolo
Italo Balbo e la colonizzazione della Libia nelle corrispondenze diplomatiche francesi
Periodico
Contemporanea
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 63 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 523 - Pagina finale: 552

In the history of Libya under Italian colonial rule, the years of Italo Balbo's governorship(1934-1940) are generally regarded as a phase of constructive collaboration and goodrelations between Italians and Libyans, after the harsh repression of the Sanusiyya's resistance,which ended in 1932. Through the analysis of the correspondence of the Frenchconsuls in Tripoli and Benghazi with the Quai d'Orsay - a primary source overlooked sofar - this paper aims at shedding new light on the history of Balbo's Libya, and at questioningthe common view of Balbo as an «enlightened» ruler. French consuls, privilegedwitnesses of the colony's everyday life, wrote frequent reports about the political situationof Libya, usually taking a critical point of view on fascist colonial policy. In spite of theirpartiality and subjectivity, their opinions are useful to question the effectiveness of Balbo's«native politics», in improving the life conditions of the Libyans and in changing their attitudetowards the Italian government.



SICI: 1127-3070(2013)63:4<523:IBELCD>2.0.ZU;2-
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