Gaetano Dato
Gaetano Dato (gdato7@gmail.com), obtained a PhD in history at the University of Trieste in 2013.
He speaks Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Slovenian.
Phone: +44 7512611155
He speaks Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Slovenian.
Phone: +44 7512611155
less
InterestsView All (32)
Uploads
Articles
Books
It was a sunny Sunday at Veragarolla beach, while in Paris the winners of WII were debating the future of Pola, Trieste and their region, disputed by Italy and Yugoslavia.
Based on intelligence documents from Washington DC, London, Rome and Zagreb, the book makes a scientific inquiry into the case, and suggests new paths of the historical interpretation.
The book was presented at the Italian Parliament on the 13th of June 2014 due to the government initiative to dispose an international historical commission to investigate the facts of the massacre: knowing as much as possible on the Vergarolla tragedy, is pivotal in the understanding of the Cold War in Italy and in those parts of Europe.
Papers
Globalization is a phenomenon lasting centuries. Contributing factors, including the import and export dynamics of major nations, are many in number and complex in their interactions. This study considers the behavior of one of the worlds 10 largest ports - Trieste - within the Austria-Hungarian empire from the mid 19th century through to the start of World War I (WWI), a time of profound globalization.
Trade in the mid 19th century largely followed the British World System; a free world market centered in London and its financial web. However this system was unstable, experiencing a long depression (1873-96), state defaults, and regular financial panics. Challenges from competitors,
especially Germany, soon followed, and by the end of the 19th century the trade landscape had shifted, and a new nationalist era ushered in. New boarders appeared, trade restrictions were imposed, and strong cartels limited competition, within the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire as well. The European powers competed for African resources and parted the continent. This age culminated into a denser cluster of wars and deeper crisis, from WWI to the close of WWII in 1945.
To understand how trade dynamics might evidence and interact with these various processes, information measures - including Shannon entropy and KL-divergence - were calculated on the distribution of imported and exported tonnages by nation over time and on the balance sheets of the Generali insurance company, the largest Austro-Hungarian insurer, from 1851 to 1910.
The next phase of the project will include more detailed analysis, involving data on goods per country and Generali's marine insurance contracts.
Human remains had a momentous role in the memory and especially in the sites of memory belonging to the main collective identities of the area.
Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian nationals, Communists, Nazis, Fascists and new Fascists, Jewish communities: all these groups acted in Julian March history.
Corpses were actors in political-religious representations, and a driving force in war propaganda.
In the post war period human remains were bone of contentions among conflicting factions. Later, they were involved in trials against Nazi war criminals, and public opinion has regularly underlined their fate.
Based on the 1945-1965 Italian and Slovenian press, documents and photos, the analysis describes the coexistence of conflicting memories and celebrations, until the unified solemnity of April 25th 1965.
Communist women and intellectuals were the protagonists of this history, which also involved the Triestine Jewish Community, and dealt with the persisting role of quislings in post war age, due to the Cold War.
Like in the rest of western world, the transformation of collective memory from the exaltation of heroes to the evaluation of victims, especially after Eichman trial, strongly framed this borderland and multi-ethnic cultural conflict.
The analysis of these sites allows a deep insight into the problems of representation of victims and veterans and on the cultivation and the uses of conflicting memories of WWI and WWII in the post war period.
It was a sunny Sunday at Veragarolla beach, while in Paris the winners of WII were debating the future of Pola, Trieste and their region, disputed by Italy and Yugoslavia.
Based on intelligence documents from Washington DC, London, Rome and Zagreb, the book makes a scientific inquiry into the case, and suggests new paths of the historical interpretation.
The book was presented at the Italian Parliament on the 13th of June 2014 due to the government initiative to dispose an international historical commission to investigate the facts of the massacre: knowing as much as possible on the Vergarolla tragedy, is pivotal in the understanding of the Cold War in Italy and in those parts of Europe.
Globalization is a phenomenon lasting centuries. Contributing factors, including the import and export dynamics of major nations, are many in number and complex in their interactions. This study considers the behavior of one of the worlds 10 largest ports - Trieste - within the Austria-Hungarian empire from the mid 19th century through to the start of World War I (WWI), a time of profound globalization.
Trade in the mid 19th century largely followed the British World System; a free world market centered in London and its financial web. However this system was unstable, experiencing a long depression (1873-96), state defaults, and regular financial panics. Challenges from competitors,
especially Germany, soon followed, and by the end of the 19th century the trade landscape had shifted, and a new nationalist era ushered in. New boarders appeared, trade restrictions were imposed, and strong cartels limited competition, within the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire as well. The European powers competed for African resources and parted the continent. This age culminated into a denser cluster of wars and deeper crisis, from WWI to the close of WWII in 1945.
To understand how trade dynamics might evidence and interact with these various processes, information measures - including Shannon entropy and KL-divergence - were calculated on the distribution of imported and exported tonnages by nation over time and on the balance sheets of the Generali insurance company, the largest Austro-Hungarian insurer, from 1851 to 1910.
The next phase of the project will include more detailed analysis, involving data on goods per country and Generali's marine insurance contracts.
Human remains had a momentous role in the memory and especially in the sites of memory belonging to the main collective identities of the area.
Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian nationals, Communists, Nazis, Fascists and new Fascists, Jewish communities: all these groups acted in Julian March history.
Corpses were actors in political-religious representations, and a driving force in war propaganda.
In the post war period human remains were bone of contentions among conflicting factions. Later, they were involved in trials against Nazi war criminals, and public opinion has regularly underlined their fate.
Based on the 1945-1965 Italian and Slovenian press, documents and photos, the analysis describes the coexistence of conflicting memories and celebrations, until the unified solemnity of April 25th 1965.
Communist women and intellectuals were the protagonists of this history, which also involved the Triestine Jewish Community, and dealt with the persisting role of quislings in post war age, due to the Cold War.
Like in the rest of western world, the transformation of collective memory from the exaltation of heroes to the evaluation of victims, especially after Eichman trial, strongly framed this borderland and multi-ethnic cultural conflict.
The analysis of these sites allows a deep insight into the problems of representation of victims and veterans and on the cultivation and the uses of conflicting memories of WWI and WWII in the post war period.
National tradition developed in German and Austrian culture in 19th century, analyzed by G. Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses, became a fundamental paradigm both in Italian and Slovenian civil religions of the region, until the second half of the 20th century.
Using both Italian and Slovenian sources, I studied the main sites of memory in the region, while also exploring its multifaceted collective identities.