<p>1 Introduction: Italy and the Suez Canal: Historical and historiographical passages from a Euro-Mediterranean perspective.- Part I. Modern infrastructures for a modern state: the Suez Canal and Italian unification.- 2 Italy’s path to unification and the techno-scientific diplomacy of the Suez canal, 1855-1857.- 3 Italian infrastructures at the time of the opening of the Suez canal.- 4 The Suez canal and Italian port cities. Local competition and global ambitions within a nation in the making (1850s-1870s).- 5 The Suez canal and the Italian sailing fleet. Expectations, problems and alternative routes (1869-1914).- 6 A Venice of the Desert: The successes and failures of the Suez canal in revitalizing Mediterranean trade.- Part II. Italian cultures and the Canal project.-7 Luigi Negrelli (1799-1858): a Tyrolean engineer at the heart of the Suez canal project.- 8 ‘This concerns the future of Italy’. The Suez canal as an opportunity: Giuseppe Sapeto and his L’Italia e il canale di Suez.-9 The Trieste-Suez connection: how businessman and explorers reshaped the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries.- 10 ‘Iddio si serve mirabilmente dell'uomo per adempire i suoi altissimi fini’: the Suez canal in the Italian Catholic Press in the 19th Century.- Part III. Colonial spaces, colonial encounters.- 11 Assab and the Suez canal. Traditional Networks and Imperial Agendas in the Red Sea .- 12 Credit, debt and power: Italian foreign-policy in the heavily-indebted Muslim-Mediterranean countries (1867-1914).- 13 Sneaky Neutrality and the Mediterranean space. Weapons smuggling in Egypt during the Italo-Ottoman war, 1911-12.- Part IV. Imperial strategies in the Mediterranean, from the mid-1860s to the Second World War.- 14 Italian Sea power and Suez. From opportunity to obsession: 1861-1943.- 15 Connecting the two seas. Negotiating an inter-Imperial modus vivendi: Italian and Ottoman diplomacies in the Suez-Red Sea area.- 16 When two worlds collide. Britain, Italy and the Suezcanal in the Fascist Era.- Part V. Work and Migration.-17The Suez canal in conversations through time: Evangelical and Waldensian transnational mobility in the Mediterranean .- 18 ‘Their Parents Are All Sailors and Blue-Collar Workers’. Elementary Education in the Suez canal Region at the Turn of the Century.- 19 Transnational Labour in Conflict: The Italian and Greek personnel of the Suez canal Company and the Second World War .- Part VI. Postwar Suez.-20 Leaving Egypt: Rethinking 1956 through Italian departures.- 21 Italian Catholics and the Suez crisis: between neo-Atlanticism, pacifism and third worldism.- 22 The Oil Route. Bernardo Bertolucci’s filmic journey through the Suez canal</p><br>
