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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:From the Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean: Ideas and Agent
 s of Italian Colonization in S. America
DESCRIPTION:This paper will consider how the ‘turn’ to global histor
 y might alter our approach to modern Italy and its colonies.
   With its emphasis on transnational trends\, and the them
 es of mobility and connectivity\, the approach has much to of
 fer scholars of Italian colonialism but so far has had relat
 ively little impact in reshaping the field and introducing n
 ew themes of research. Focusing on Italians overseas in the 
 age of nation and empire\, this paper will seek to explain wh
 at the study of Italy might contribute to the burgeoning fie
 ld of global history. Specifically\, I take a number of well-
 known Italian migrants to Latin America and the Pacific (the
  journalist Giovan Battista Cuneo\; the archaeologist Antonio
  Raimondi\; the anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza\; and the medi
 cal ‘charlatan’ Giulio Bennati)\, in order to retrace the
  political\, commercial and scientific networks that brought 
 them from the Mediterranean to the Andes and beyond. First\, 
 I argue that their lives can tell us much about the experien
 ce of empire in the nineteenth century and the extent to whi
 ch a country without significant colonies could nevertheless
  participate in\, and benefit considerably from\, European i
 mperial expansion. Second\, I look at attempts to create nati
 onal ‘colonies’ of settlement in the South American Repu
 blics and suggest that these colonies represent an important
  link between processes of global migration and those of Eur
 opean colonial expansion.
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