Niall MacGalloway
My doctoral research focuses on the Italian occupation of France during the Second World War. This tiny zone has often been overlooked by scholars in favour of the much larger German zone, or the Vichy government.
My approach to this topic will be largely thematic, looking at issues of government and governance, economic exploitation, civil resistance, Italianisation of the occupied territories, Franco-Italian relations, and collaboration, particularly in organisations such as the police. Throughout this project, comparisons will be made, where appropriate, with the German occupation in the north, as well as other Italian occupations in Europe to discover what was unique about the project. It will also allow historians studying other territories to find out what were common Italian practices and which measures were restricted to France.
I intend to examine hitherto unexplored themes, particularly ideas of sovereignty and legitimacy, as well as revisiting themes investigated by previous research. In this way, I hope to shed new light on the occupation, as well as moving it beyond the traditional idea that very little of consequence took place.
My research will be placed within the greater context of both Vichy France and Fascist Italy, showing that Italian actions within the zone were far more important than has previously been thought. I will also set Italian plans and projects for the territories into the broader framework of Italian actions in their other occupied territories.
My research is based upon archival sources, from both French and Italian archives. In France, I have relied upon the Archives Nationales, as well as the departemental archives in the Alpes-Maritimes and the municipales archives in Nice, Cannes and Menton. In Italy, I intend to conduct archival work in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, as well as the Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri and the Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. I also intend to carry out work in the Archivio Storico della Banca d'Italia and the Archive Historique de la Banque de France where papers are available.
More broadly, I am interested in the Second World War in Europe as a whole, particularly issues of collaboration and resistance and how societies dealt with occupation. I am also interested in Italian Fascism, post-war Italy, twentieth century France, and Europe in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.
Supervisors: Stephen Tyre
My approach to this topic will be largely thematic, looking at issues of government and governance, economic exploitation, civil resistance, Italianisation of the occupied territories, Franco-Italian relations, and collaboration, particularly in organisations such as the police. Throughout this project, comparisons will be made, where appropriate, with the German occupation in the north, as well as other Italian occupations in Europe to discover what was unique about the project. It will also allow historians studying other territories to find out what were common Italian practices and which measures were restricted to France.
I intend to examine hitherto unexplored themes, particularly ideas of sovereignty and legitimacy, as well as revisiting themes investigated by previous research. In this way, I hope to shed new light on the occupation, as well as moving it beyond the traditional idea that very little of consequence took place.
My research will be placed within the greater context of both Vichy France and Fascist Italy, showing that Italian actions within the zone were far more important than has previously been thought. I will also set Italian plans and projects for the territories into the broader framework of Italian actions in their other occupied territories.
My research is based upon archival sources, from both French and Italian archives. In France, I have relied upon the Archives Nationales, as well as the departemental archives in the Alpes-Maritimes and the municipales archives in Nice, Cannes and Menton. In Italy, I intend to conduct archival work in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, as well as the Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri and the Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. I also intend to carry out work in the Archivio Storico della Banca d'Italia and the Archive Historique de la Banque de France where papers are available.
More broadly, I am interested in the Second World War in Europe as a whole, particularly issues of collaboration and resistance and how societies dealt with occupation. I am also interested in Italian Fascism, post-war Italy, twentieth century France, and Europe in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.
Supervisors: Stephen Tyre
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Edited Volumes by Niall MacGalloway
This special issue hopes to build upon an increasing historiographical body, and to bring to the forefront an often under-examined area of the Second World War
Chapters in Edited Volumes by Niall MacGalloway
Journal Articles by Niall MacGalloway
Conference Presentations by Niall MacGalloway
The Italian occupation of France, in general, is an understudied aspect of the Second World War, particularly in English, but those studies which do focus on it rarely make examine legitimacy and sovereignty. I intend to examine this by looking at measures taken by both governments and demonstrating how many of these measures ultimately sought to justify the very governments who made them.
Book Reviews by Niall MacGalloway
This special issue hopes to build upon an increasing historiographical body, and to bring to the forefront an often under-examined area of the Second World War
The Italian occupation of France, in general, is an understudied aspect of the Second World War, particularly in English, but those studies which do focus on it rarely make examine legitimacy and sovereignty. I intend to examine this by looking at measures taken by both governments and demonstrating how many of these measures ultimately sought to justify the very governments who made them.