Beschreibung
The book offers a comparative analysis of the history of colonial citizenship in the Italian and German colonial empires based on the close investigation of Eritrea and German East Africa. It not only looks at the production of legal texts, which mostly occurred in the metropolitan context, but also examines their implementation and the administrative practices regarding citizenship on the ground. Historians of European colonialism have often stressed the distinction between metropolitan citizens and colonial subjects as an essential feature of colonial governmentality. This distinction existed in Eritrea and German East Africa, too, as Italians and Germans kept their legal status there, while the local population was excluded from metropolitan citizenship. By dealing with colonial citizenship in Eritrea and German East Africa, this book addresses a central issue of the global history of European colonialism and its discriminatory nature. Being aware of the many differences between the two East African regions analyzed, the work offers an innovative comparison looking at two colonies established in the same period and ruled by two powers, Germany and Italy, who were late in acquiring overseas territories as compared to other European colonial empires. In this imperial space stretching between Europe and Africa, special attention is paid to the population on the spot, especially to agents of local origin.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Neopubli GmbH
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Autorenportrait
Nicola Camilleri is a historian of modern Europe in a global perspective with a special interest in Italy and Germany and their colonial history. His research combines legal and institutional history with cultural and social history. He received a PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2017. After being a visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute, NYU (New York), and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt), he joined the ERC project PREWArAs at the University of Padua, which deals with armed associations in Europe before the First World War. Nicola Camilleri has co-edited an issue of Northeast Africa Studies and published several articles and book reviews.
