The myth of planning. The Allied Control Commission and the UNRRA in the Italian laboratory
Keywords:
Planning, UNRRA, Allied Control Commission
Abstract
The article, through the study of sources from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Allied Control Commission archives analyses, in a transnational perspective the use of the American myths of planning and technical expertise during the second world war. Allied military authorities and the UNRRA agents, using Italy as a laboratory of experimentation of their policies, played an essential role in integration of the Mediterranean area, buildinginfrastructural, social, economic and cultural premises for a new geopolitical order, and giving their contribution to the rise of an anti-party attitudes in some Republican Italian élites.
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Mangiameli R. (1987). La regione in guerra (1943-1950) in Aymard M. & Giarrizzo G. (eds.), Le regioni dall’Unità ad oggi, V, la Sicilia (pp. 486-600). Einaudi. Torino.
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Painton F. (1944). Naples: City of panic and famine. Reader's digest, July, 28.
Patti M. (2013). La Sicilia e gli Alleati. Tra occupazione e liberazione. Donzelli. Roma.
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Wallace H. (1942) Retrieved from https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/henrywallacefreeworldassoc.htm
Washburne C. & Stearns M. (1926). New school in the old world. John Day Co. New York.
Webster D. (2011). Development advisors in time of Cold War and decolonization: The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, 1950-59. Journal of global history, 6, 250.
Weiner D. R. P. (2020). American and British effort to democratize schoolbooks in occupied Italy and Germany from 1943 to 1949. Journal of educational media, memory and society, 12(1), 121-145.
White S. (1991). Progressive renaissance. America and the reconstruction of Italian education, 1943-1962. Garland publishing inc. New York & London.
Williams I. (2013). Allies and Italians under occupation. Sicily and Southern Italy 1943-1945. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstone.
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2021-07-18
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