The Italian Paradox: The Italian Media and the Myth of the Mutilated Victory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. On the Mediatization of War and Peace since 1918/19 1
4. I. Visualization of War – Narratives of War
5. European War Literature in a Transnational Perspective 17
6. When History Went Public 35
7. Visualizing the War 51
8. Mechanical Vaudeville 61
9. II. Peace Illusions – The Media as Postwar Prophets
10. “Where Did the Fourteen Points Go?” 79
11. Woodrow Wilson in Europe: December 1918–February 1919 93
12. Asserting Czechoslovak Authority in Slovakia 109
13. Conceiving a “Just” Peace for Trentino 125
14. III. From Hope to Disenchantment
15. The Media and the Transition from War to Peace 147
16. Media, Propaganda, and Revolution 159
17. The Italian Paradox: The Italian Media and the Myth of the Mutilated Victory 179
18. Devastated Victors 197
19. IV. The Memory of Peace and the Media – National and Regional Contexts
20. Visions of Stability and Anxiety 215
21. The Failed Exit from the War 239
22. When the Decline of Europe Turned Topical 249
23. The Execution of Cesare Battisti 265
24. Contributors 289
25. Index 291