caa a22 4500 388052600 CHVBK 20180307125057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0212610900007163 doi S0212610900007163 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0212610900007163 Federico Giovanni University of Pisa Italy's Late and Unprofitable Forays into Empire [Elektronische Daten] [Giovanni Federico] Italy's colonial history is better known for its failures (notably the battle of Adwa, the major defeat of a Western power by an African army in the 19th century) than for its achievements. Italy succeeded in conquering a substantial <<empire>> only in the 20th century, when the traditional colonial powers were already in retreat1. But this has not always been the case. The Venetian republic successfully ruled for many centuries the first <<colonial>> empire in Western Europe 2. Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1998 Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 377-402 0212-6109 16:1<377 1998 16 RHE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Federico Giovanni University of Pisa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 377-402 0212-6109 16:1<377 1998 16 RHE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge