The Cost of the “Unclaimed”
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Keywords

Adriatic provinces
healthcare
citizenship
pertinency
Liberal internationalism

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Hametz, M. (2026). The Cost of the “Unclaimed”: Pertinency and Healthcare Administration in Italy’s Adriatic Provinces, 1919–1927. ACTA HISTRIAE, 34(1), 25–42. https://doi.org/10.19233/AH.2026.02

Abstract

This article explores the intersections of the political citizenship and health- care management in Italy’s newly annexed provinces from the Treaty of Saint Ger- main’s coming into force to the Fascist legal absorption of the new territories in the reforms of 1926. It examines the role of Liberal internationalist philosophies and policies in the shaping of borderland practices and traces the continuities of Liberal approaches into the Fascist period, focusing on local strategies to bal- ance humanitarian care concerns with nationalizing priorities and demographic policies.

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