Moderns abroad : architecture, cities and Italian imperialism / by Mia Fuller.

"First published in 2007. This paperback edition published in 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index.

Part I. Contexts : History: 1869-1943 -- Geographies -- The colonial built environment untheorized, 1880s-1920s -- Part II. Theories : Modern Italian architecture, 1910s-1930s -- Colonial modern, 1920s-1940s -- Imperial urbanism, 1936-1937 -- Part III. Practices : The Italiam colonial city: Tripoli -- Islands of ethnicity: planned agricultural settlements -- The Italian imperial city: Addis Ababa.

This text focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment.