Foreign cultural policy in the interbellum: the Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council contesting the Mediterranean
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Introduction 9
1 The Development of Foreign Cultural Policy 19
The Allgemeiner Deutscher Schulverein (1881) / Verein für das
Deutschtum im Ausland (1908) and the Deutsche Akademie (1925) 20
Uniting the Volksdeutschen 20
Accommodating Hitler s regime 25
The Alliance Française (1883) 27
Mission civilisatrice and France s new orientation after 1870 27
Greater involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
impact of the Great War 32
The Dante Alighieri Society (1889) 35
Italian irredentism, emigration, and national expansion 35
Effects of the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War 41
Competition with the Fasci Italiani all Estero and the Istituti
di Cultura Italiana 43
Intensification of cultural propaganda in the 1930s 46
The British Council (1934) 48
Cultural propaganda disavowed 48
Protecting trade, territory, and democratic tradition 51
Under the wing of the Foreign Office 52
Conclusion 57
2 The Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council 61
Agency and Independence
Bridging two centuries: the Dante Alighieri Society 63
Risorgimento and freemasonry 63
From Risorgimento to Fascism: President Paolo Boselli as an
icon of continuity 66
Generational change 71
Defending the last vestiges of independence 74
After Boselli 80
Superseded by the Istituti di Cultura 83
The British Council: an offshoot of the Foreign Office 85
Emergence in the age of new diplomacy 85
Effete officials 89
Battling for independence from the Ministry of Information 93
Conclusion 98
3 Constructions of Ttalianita’ and ‘Britishness’ 101
Cultural pilgrimages across the Mediterranean 102
Reviving the Roman past and honouring the Fallen Soldiers 104
Cultural crusaders and missionaries of modernity log
Italy’s natural claim on the Mediterranean 111
The promise of a Pax Romana 115
A Christian soul with a Mediterranean conscience 118
The projection of Britishness 119
Format and circulation of Britain To-day and British Life and
Thought 121
Britain and European or World Civilization 124
Freedom, democracy, and peace 127
The harmony of hierarchy 131
Truth will triumph 135
Conclusion 137
4 The Battle for Cultural Hegemony in Malta 141
Malta: a chess piece in the Mediterranean 141
The Dante Alighieri Society in Malta 147
Indignation in the Dante’s publications 148
Italian civilization in Malta: securing its place in Europe 153
The British Council in Malta 159
Establishing a British Institute 161
The first Council lecture: self-government and liberty as British
heritage 165
A blessed Institute: dispelling suspicions of anti-Catholicism 168
Conclusion 173
5 National Culture and Imperial Conquest 177
The Dante Alighieri Society in Abyssinia and the British Council in
Egypt
The Dante Alighieri Society’s imperial dreams in Addis Ababa 179
A new Dante Alighieri committee in Addis Ababa 179
Caught in practical obstacles 182
The launch of the Dante library and of a spiritual mission 188
Convoluted constructions 191
Between great expectations and the reality of competing
interests 195
The British Council in Egypt: using the word instead of the sword 200
Alarm about Latin dominance 201
Keeping teachers and children British 209
Education for Egyptian children 215
A British Institute or an Anglo-Egyptian Society 217
British Evening Institutes 219
Calling for the use of new media 221
Conclusion 222
Conclusion 225
Acknowledgements 235
Bibliography 237
Index 252
List of Illustrations
Illustration 1 President Paolo Boselli and the council members of
the Dante Alighieri Society during the inauguration
of the new central office at Piazza Firenze, Rome,
21 April 1930 67
Illustration 2 George Ambrose Lloyd, ist Baron Lloyd, 1934 91
Illustration 3 Front cover of the Pagine della Dante, 1-2 (1934) 103
Illustration 4 Dante cruise participants honouring a monument
to Italian fallen soldiers in Derna, Libya, 1929 108
Illustration 5 Dante cruise participants being received by the
Italian consul in Luxor, Egypt, 1929 114
Illustration 6 Britain To-day 22 (1 March 1940) 122
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