Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War: A Mediterranean History

1 Introduction: Italy and the Suez Canal: Historical and historiographical passages in the making of a Euro-Mediterranean region - Barbara Curli
Part I. Modern infrastructures for a modern state: the Suez Canal and Italian unification2 Camillo Cavour, the Suez Canal and the path to Italian unification - Barbara Curli 3 Italian infrastructures and the opening of the Suez Canal - Andrea Giuntini 4 The Suez Canal and Italian port cities: local competition and global ambitions within a nation in the making (1850s-1890s) - Giovanni Cristina 5 The Suez Canal and the Italian sailing fleet: expectations, problems and alternatives routes (1869-1914) - Leonardo Scavino 6 A Venice of the Desert: The successes and failures of the Suez Canal in revitalizing Mediterranean trade - Kevin Tang
Part II. Italian cultures and the Canal project7 Luigi Negrelli (1799-1858): a Tyrolean engineer at the heart of the Suez Canal project - Andrea Leonardi and Alice Riegler 8 'Qui dell'avvenire si tratta dell'Italia': The Suez Canal as an opportunity. Giuseppe Sapeto and his political pamphlet L'Italia ed il Canale di Suez - Filippo Gattai Tacchi 9 The Trieste-Suez connection: how businessman and explorers reshaped the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries - Giovanni Modaffari10 'Iddio si serve mirabilmente dell'uomo per adempire i suoi altissimi fini': the Suez Canal in the Italian Catholic Press in the 19th Century - Carlo Bovolo
Part III. Colonial spaces, colonial encounters11 Assab and the Suez Canal: the root of Italian Imperialism in the Red Sea - Luca Castiglioni 12 Credit, debt and power: Italian foreign-policy making in the heavily-indebted Muslim-Mediterranean countries (1867-1914) - Giampaolo Conte 13 Sneaky neutrality: weapons smuggling in Egypt during the Italo-Ottoman war over Libya, 1911-1912 - Andreas Guidi
Part IV. Imperial strategies in the Mediterranean, from the mid-1860s to the Second World War14 The Italian Navy and Suez: from opportunity to obsession (1861-1943) - Fabio De Ninno 15 Connecting the two seas: Italian and Ottoman diplomacies in the Suez-Red Sea area - Giorgio Ennas 16 When two worlds collide: Britain, Italy and the Suez Canal in the Fascist era - Steven Morewood
Part V. Work and Migration17 The Suez Canal in conversations through time: Evangelical and Waldensian mobility in the Mediterranean - Paola Schellenbaum 18 'Their Parents are all Sailors and Blue-Collar Workers': the schools of the Suez Canal in the late nineteenth century - Olga Verlato19 Ordinary People in Extraordinary Contexts: Italian and Greek Personnel of the Suez Canal Company in Moments of Crisis during the 20th century - Angelos Dalachanis
Part VI. Italy and Suez in times of Cold War20 Leaving Egypt: rethinking 1956 through Italian departures - Joseph John Viscomi 21 Italian Catholics and the Suez Crisis: between neo-Atlanticism, pacifism and third worldism - Massimo De Giuseppe 22 Italy and the closure of the Suez Canal (1967-1975) - Gaetano La Nave
Afterword - Fred Cooper