Wednesday, 16.02.2022 – 7.00pm – The Imperial
Two critical events took place in Malta in the first quarter of the 20th century; the 1919 Sette Giugno riots and the granting of the 1921 self-government constitution. These events, however, did not take place in isolation. This talk places these events within their international context, within a British Empire which was, paradoxically at its peak but also at its weakest. The empire was being challenged from within and externally by new political movements and ideologies. This period provides us with a good understanding of what took place in the second-half of the 20th century.
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André P DeBattista is a political scientist and occasional columnist. He is an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute for European Studies at the University of Malta, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Brussels. He is the author of several scholarly papers and press commentaries covering the themes of politics, small-states, international relations and the dynamics of religion and public life.
Presentation:
The Beginning of the End of the British 16.02.2022
