Riccardo Tesolin | Università di Bologna (original) (raw)
Graduate student in african history at the university of Bologna and Paris 7.
I'm a specialist of economic history of the ex-Italian Somaliland.
Currently I'm working on a thesis projet on the economic history of the Horn of Africa during 1935-1960.
I really love working with genealogy.
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The main theme of the research is the colonial economy of the Italian Somaliland and the French S... more The main theme of the research is the colonial economy of the Italian Somaliland and the French Somaliland (Côte Française des Somalis - CFS) between the 1920s and the 1960s. The activity of the industrial firms has been taken into account giving equal importance to the workforce. The objective was not the comparison between the two colonies, but the integration. The sources came from french and italian archives.
Concerning the Italian Somaliland, the firms studied are principally focused on an agricoltural product (as the SAIS). About the workforce, it was essentially insufficient and it has been underlined the dialogue with the italian settlers.
Concerning the French Somalilans, the axes of the colonial economy were the salt industry SALIDJI and the harbour. The workforce came mostly from Yemen and that had some influences on the way to the independence.
Every first chapter of the deux sections presents some key elements, for instance the environment or the ethnography of the colonies, to facilitate the comprehension of the following chapters.
The research analyses several forms of exploitation (economic, private, public) of the Italian So... more The research analyses several forms of exploitation (economic, private, public) of the Italian Somaliland and the role of the Italian Royal Family in the colony between 1893 and 1941.
The first chapters cover the Italian indirect rule period in the Benadir (Banaadir) in which the Vincenzo Filonardi’s society and the Società Commerciale Italiana per il Benadir, both private, had the authority to control the territory and to exploit the natural resources (1891-1904). In 1905 the indirect rule lapsed. So the research analyses the new exploitation made by the Italian business men who invested their money in the colony. Among them there was duke Luigi Amedeo of Savoia-Aosta, cousin of the king Vittorio Emanuele III. The duke links the first to the second section of the research where it is explained the role of the members of the Royal Family in the dialogue with colonial authorities and with the Italian business men.
The main theme of the research is the colonial economy of the Italian Somaliland and the French S... more The main theme of the research is the colonial economy of the Italian Somaliland and the French Somaliland (Côte Française des Somalis - CFS) between the 1920s and the 1960s. The activity of the industrial firms has been taken into account giving equal importance to the workforce. The objective was not the comparison between the two colonies, but the integration. The sources came from french and italian archives.
Concerning the Italian Somaliland, the firms studied are principally focused on an agricoltural product (as the SAIS). About the workforce, it was essentially insufficient and it has been underlined the dialogue with the italian settlers.
Concerning the French Somalilans, the axes of the colonial economy were the salt industry SALIDJI and the harbour. The workforce came mostly from Yemen and that had some influences on the way to the independence.
Every first chapter of the deux sections presents some key elements, for instance the environment or the ethnography of the colonies, to facilitate the comprehension of the following chapters.
The research analyses several forms of exploitation (economic, private, public) of the Italian So... more The research analyses several forms of exploitation (economic, private, public) of the Italian Somaliland and the role of the Italian Royal Family in the colony between 1893 and 1941.
The first chapters cover the Italian indirect rule period in the Benadir (Banaadir) in which the Vincenzo Filonardi’s society and the Società Commerciale Italiana per il Benadir, both private, had the authority to control the territory and to exploit the natural resources (1891-1904). In 1905 the indirect rule lapsed. So the research analyses the new exploitation made by the Italian business men who invested their money in the colony. Among them there was duke Luigi Amedeo of Savoia-Aosta, cousin of the king Vittorio Emanuele III. The duke links the first to the second section of the research where it is explained the role of the members of the Royal Family in the dialogue with colonial authorities and with the Italian business men.