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COLLISION OF EMPIRES

To the memory of E. Ruth Mitchell

who showed me the way forward

Italys Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

Edited by

G. BRUCE STRANG

Brandon University, Canada

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

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Collision of empires : Italys invasion of Ethiopia and its international impact / [edited] by G. Bruce Strang.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3009-4 (hardcover) 1. Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 2. Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936Diplomatic history. I. Strang, G. Bruce, 1963- author, editor of compilation.

DT387.8C637 2013

963.056dc23

2013006867

ISBN 9781409430094 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315572727 (ebk)

G. Bruce Strang

G. Bruce Strang

Ian S. Spears

Gaynor Johnson

Steven Morewood

Martin Thomas

G. Bruce Strang

Francine McKenzie

W. Neville Sloane

Geoffrey T. Waddington

J. Calvitt Clarke III

J. Calvitt Clarke III

Nicolas G. Virtue

Remco van Diepen

J. Calvitt Clarke III received his PhD in Russian and Soviet History from the University of Maryland in 1988, and for eighteen years he taught history at Jacksonville University in Florida. He is now retired as a Professor Emeritus. He has published widely on diplomacy in the 1930s, focusing on relations among Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Ethiopia, including Russia and Italy Against Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement of the 1930s (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991) and Alliance of the Colored Peoples: Ethiopia & Japan Before World War II (Oxford: James Currey, 2011).

Gaynor Johnson is Reader in International History at the University of Salford. She is the author of The Berlin Embassy of Lord DAbernon, 19201926 (2002) and is the editor of Locarno Revisited: European Diplomacy 19201929 (2004) as well as a number of other books on British foreign policy in the twentieth century. She is currently writing a biography of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.

Francine McKenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. She received her PhD from Cambridge. She is the author of Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth 19391948: The Politics of Preference (Palgrave 2002) and co-editor of Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century (University of British Columbia Press, 2003). She is currently writing a history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 194794 and co-editing a collection on the historical intersection of trade and conflict.

Steven Morewood is Senior Lecturer in International History in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham. He is the author of The British Defence of Egypt, 19351940: Conflict and Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean (London: Frank Cass, 2005) and is currently undertaking research for monographs on Operation Compass and British diplomatic and military intervention in Greece, 193941.

W. Neville Sloane received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2007. He is an independent scholar and co-editor the Annual Trans-Atlantic Studies Association (TSA) Newsletter. Sloane has lectured extensively in Argentina, where he developed the federally registered course, The Search for Security, 19141945: Parallels, Perspectives, and Politics, for the Universidad Nacional de Misiones. His research interests lie in the area of the British Dominions response to the militaristic authoritarian regimes in the 1930s and Anglo-American special diplomatic relations in the twentieth century with specific focus on the Canadian dimension in the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King. Since 2008, Sloane has served as a member of the Management Committee and as a Trustee of the TSA, and as a co-founding member, Director and Secretary for the Management Committee of the New Brunswick Black History Society, Inc. He is the author of the forthcoming books, The Paradox of Unity: Anglo-Canadian Relations, 193745, and The North Atlantic Triangle: Anglo-American Canadian Atomic Diplomacy, 194161.

Ian S. Spears is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. His principal research focus is on issues of conflict, violence and development in Africa and other developing regions of the world. He has book chapters and articles in the Journal of Democracy, Third World Quarterly, International Journal, Review of African Political Economy, and the African Security Review. He is the co-editor (with Paul Kingston) of States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post Cold War Era (Palgrave, 2004) and, most recently, the author of Civil Wars in Africa: the Search for Security (Lynne Rienner/First Form, 2010). He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Why Conflict Resolution Fails.

G. Bruce Strang is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor in the Department of History at Brandon University. He is the author of On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) and is currently writing a monograph on the Alcide De Gasperi administration and post-war Italian economic and political reconstruction. He also writes on British foreign policy in the 1930s and is researching a monograph on British strategic foreign policy before the Second World War.

Martin Thomas is Professor of Colonial History at the University of Exeter. He is a director of the Universitys Centre for War, State and Society, an interdisciplinary centre that supports research into the impact of armed conflict and collective violence on societies and communities. His most recent book is Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 19181940 (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Remco van Diepen studied History at the University of Amsterdam. In 1999 he published his PhD thesis on the Netherlands and the League of Nations. He is currently a researcher at the Nieuw Land Heritage Centre in Lelystad, the Netherlands.