Italian Fascism in Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands, 1922-44

This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolini’s imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently.

Valerie McGuire is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1895-1945, and other articles on modern Italian history and culture.

Aron Rodrigue is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous publications on Sephardi Jews in the modern era, with a special focus on the Ottoman Empire.