Fascism

by Neiberg, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780754625742
• ISBN10: 0754625745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This volume presents the best writings on the origins, development, success and failure of fascism outside of Germany. By treating the problem in a global context, these essays together add tremendous complexity to our understanding of one of history's most destructive political movements. The collection covers theories, origins and definitions of fascism, fascism in power, fascism in opposition, and fascism in a global and comparative setting.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theories, Origins and Definitions: Modernism and fascism: the politics of culture in Italy, 1903-22

What fascism is not: thoughts on the deflation of a concept

Fascism as political religion

Five stages of fascism

Interpretations of the origins of fascism

Democracy and fascism: class, civil society and rational choice in Italy

Fascism in Power: Dictatorship from below: local politics in the making of the Francoist state, 1937-48

Italian fascism: whatever happened to dictatorship?

Women under Italian fascism

The ambivalence of Italian antisemitism: fascism, nationalism, and racism in Trieste

Il grido della stirpe and Mussolini's 1938 racial legislation

Fascism and right authoritarianism in the Iberian world - the last 20 years

Democracy's breakdown and the rise of fascism: the case of the Spanish 2nd Republic, 1931-6

Fascism in Opposition: Defining French fascism, finding fascists in France

Bernanos, Drumont and the rise of French fascism

Tell me chum, in case I got it wrong. What was it we were fighting during the war? The re-emergence of British fascism, 1945-58

Fascism in France and the strange case of the croix de feu

Was fascism an ideology? British fascism reconsidered

Patterns of membership and support for the British Union of Fascists

Fascism in a Global and Comparative Setting: A 'dog in the night time' problem: American fascism in the 1930s

Fascism and Italian-American identity. A case study: Utica, New York

Fascism and politics in Peru during the Benavides regime, 1933-39: the Italian perspective

Comment: fascism and the history of pre-war Japan: the failure of a concept

Nazism in Chile: a particular type of fascism in South America

The new voices of Chilean fascism and the Popular front, 1938-42

Ideology and diplomacy: Italian fascism and Brazil, 1935-38

Index

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