Abstract

LUCHESE, Terciane Ângela. ‘Quando il Mondo era Roma’: Schoolbooks to Instill Fascism Among Italians Abroad, the Brazilian case (1922-1938). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e119.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-119.

Schools with ethnic marks left by language, knowledge and way of operating spread across Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since 1870, Italian schools would be inspected by consuls linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Books were shipped and distributed through consuls who were key figures in fascism. The objective is to understand the policies, production, circulation and distribution of schoolbooks made during fascism for Italian schools abroad, with special attention to those that circulated in Brazil between 1922 and 1938, when ethnic schools were nationalized and closed. An example is ‘Quando il Mondo era Roma’, a book of “brief news about a small people who knew how to give the world a great civilization” (FASCI ITALIANI, 1932, p. II). From the History of Education and Cultural History, a historical documentary analysis of laws, mailing, reports from consuls, photographs, schoolbooks and newspapers was carried out.

Keywords : Schoolbooks; Fascism; Italian schools in Brazil.

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