The Oxford handbook of fascism / edited by R.J.B. Bosworth.

Contributor(s):

Bosworth, R. J. B [edt]

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xiii, 626 p. : ill. b&w ; 26 cmISBN:

9780199594788

Other title:

Fascism

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DDC classification:

320.53

Contents:

Introduction / R.J.B. Bosworth -- Pt. 1. Ideas and Formative Experience -- Ch. 1. The ideological origins of Fascism before 1914 / Kevin Passmore. -- Ch. 2. The First World War as Cultural Trauma / Alan Kramer -- Ch. 3. World War One as Totality / Richard Bessel -- Ch. 4. The Aftermath of War / Glenda Sluga -- Pt. 2. The first fascist nation -- Ch. 5. Squadrism / Mimmo Franzinelli -- Ch. 6. Culture and Intellectuals / Guido Bonsaver -- Ch. 7. The Peasant Experience Under Italian Fascism / Roger Absalom -- Ch. 8. Corporatism and the Economic Order / Philip Morgan -- Ch. 9. Fascism and Catholicism / John Pollard -- Ch. 10. Propaganda and Youth / Patrizia Dogliani -- Ch. 11. Women in Mussolini's Italy 1922-45 / Perry Willson -- Ch. 12. Crime and Repression / Mauro Canali -- Ch. 13. Fascism and War / Davide Rodogno -- Ch. 14. Dictators, Strong or Weak? The Model of Benito Mussolini / Richard Bosworth -- Pt. 3. The Nazi Comparison -- Ch. 15. State and Society: Italy and Germany Compared / Gustavo Corni -- Ch. 16. Race / Robert Gordon -- Ch. 17. Diplomacy and World War: the (first) Axis of Evil / Jim Burgwyn -- Pt. 4. Others -- Ch. 18. Communism: Fascism's 'other'? / Roger Markwick -- Ch. 19. Spain / Mary Vincent -- Ch. 20. Hungary / Mark Pittaway -- Ch. 21. Romania / Radu Ioanid -- Ch. 22. Yugoslavia and its successor states / Marko Attila Hoare -- Ch. 23. Austria / Corinna Peniston-Bird -- Ch. 24. The Netherlands / Bob Moore -- Ch. 25. Belgium / Bruno de Wever -- Ch. 26. Britain and its Empire / Martin Pugh -- Ch. 27. France / Joan Tumblety -- Ch. 28. Japan / Rikki Kersten -- Pt. 5. Reflection and Legacies -- Ch. 29. Comparisons and Definitions / Robert Paxton -- Ch. 30. Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy / Nathan Stoltzfus and R.J.B. Bosworth -- Ch. 31. Neofascism / Anna Cento Bull.

Summary: The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the 'first Fascist nation', the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The book also examines the roots of fascism before 1914 and its survival, whether in practice or in memory, after 1945. The analysis looks at both fascist ideas and practice, and at the often uneasy relationship between the two. The book is not designed to provide any final answers to the fascist problem and no quick definition emerges from its pages. Readers will rather find there historical debate. On appropriate occasions, the authors disagree with each other and have not been forced into any artificial 'consensus', offering readers the chance to engage with the debates over a phenomenon that, more than any other single factor, led humankind into the catastrophe of the Second World War.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion.

From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the 'first Fascist nation', the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The book also examines the roots of fascism before 1914 and its survival, whether in practice or in memory, after 1945. The analysis looks at both fascist ideas and practice, and at the often uneasy relationship between the two.

The book is not designed to provide any final answers to the fascist problem and no quick definition emerges from its pages. Readers will rather find there historical debate. On appropriate occasions, the authors disagree with each other and have not been forced into any artificial 'consensus', offering readers the chance to engage with the debates over a phenomenon that, more than any other single factor, led humankind into the catastrophe of the Second World War.

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