colonization

The article I chose was titled, " Italian Colonization of Tripolitania" by Gary Fowler in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers copyright 1972. The article talked about how the Italians wanted some land to colonize and decided to take Tripoliania, Libya. When they did this they were unsure of what they were doing. Evidently the Italians were not great at colonizing and looked at how the French had taken over and settled in North Africa. They used everything that tripolitania had and tried to do it the way the natives had done things.
When things went poorly the Italians blamed everthing on the Turkish administrators and Arab farmers. They then had problems legally owning the land and even though they cam in and took the land the " Ottoman Land COde" decided to let the Italians have it. I find it so interesting how the European nations just took something if they wanted it and didn't care about the people they were stealing from. Also that when things went sour, the problem is not the Italians it is the poor people they stole everything from. It is their fault that they are not educated and able to work the land.