Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Since World War II, Italy has struggled to recast both its colonial past and its alliance with Nazi Germany. For many years, pervading much intellectual and public discourse was the conte...
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Liverpool University Press
2016
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