Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This book surveys the history of connections between conceptions of difference, identity, and sovereignty during the Hapsburg empire, liberal and Fascist Italy, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War period. It details the historical meaning and value accrued by those narratives of difference over the century, and their impact on concepts of sovereignty in the realms of national and international politics."--BOOK JACKET.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Sluga (director of European Studies, history, University of Sidney) provides a framework for writing the history of places from a perspective sensitive to the politics of identity, whether national, ethnic, or gender identity. She surveys the history of connections between concepts of difference, identity, and sovereignty during the Hapsburg empire, liberal and fascist Italy, the first and second world wars, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War period. She examines the historical meaning and value accrued by those narratives of difference over the century, and their impact on concepts of sovereignty in the realms of national and international politics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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