Journeys through fascism : Italian travel writing between the Wars / Charles Burdett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : writing on fascist culture -- Signs of Roman rule : Italian tourists and travellers in the eastern Mediterranean -- Fascination and hostility : two ambivalent accounts of distant journeys -- The other spaces of fascist Italy : the cememtery, the prison, and the internal colony -- Narratives of settlment in Italian East Africa 1936-1941 -- Itineraries through melodrama : Italian correspondents and the Spanish Civil War -- Representing rapprochement with Nazi Germany -- Competing models of humanity : perceptions of Russia and the United States on the eve of the Second World War.