Anxious »Italians«Hametz, Maura Elise (Avtor) anxious populationsAdriatic Littoralinterwar periodsocial welfarecitizenshipprecarityThis article suggests that cultural trauma and insecurity fueled pervasive anxiety in the former Habsburg Adriatic Littoral in the wake of WWI and affected the development and implementation of social welfare policies. In the Italian successor state’s eastern border provinces, the creation of a secure and stable society relied on authorities’ ability to include and support individuals and on individuals’ ability to negotiate their place as citizens and to define themselves as worthy of state assistance.20222026-07-29 15:30:51Delo ni kategorizirano31361slImetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji. CC BY-NC 4.0