Name of Object:

Italian postcard of colonial propaganda: 'The Turco-Italian War. The Italian governor taking possession of Tripoli'

Other name of the Object (second name):

Italian postcard of colonial propaganda

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Library of Modern and Contemporary History

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Holding Institution (original language):

Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea

Date of Object:

1911–12

Description:

In this postcard we see the first Italian public ceremony during the colonial conquest of Libya.
As Terence Ranger pointed out in his essay “The invention of tradition in colonial Africa” in E. Hobsbawn and T Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1983), public ceremonies were a tool that was much used by colonial powers. Their goal was to grant a public image of legitimacy to colonial domination. In other words, colonial pomp and circumstance were intended to convey to colonial subject a notion of might and “prestige” of the colonisers.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

cart. 5/041

Citation of this web page:

Maria Pia Critelli, Giulia Barrera "Italian postcard of colonial propaganda: 'The Turco-Italian War. The Italian governor taking possession of Tripoli'" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;131;en

Prepared by: Maria Pia Critelli, Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 131