Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the origins and development of Fascism in Italy during the years 1915-1945
Now thoroughly updated and expanded with a revised Introduction and Conclusion which set the history of Fascism in a historiographical perspective, and new sections on the organisation of culture, the 'fascistization' of the 90s, and the Fascist empire
Part of the book series: The Making of the Twentieth Century (MATWCE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Locating Fascism
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The Conquest of Power, 1915–29
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The Fascist Regime, 1929–36
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Fascist Expansionism at Home and Abroad, 1936–43
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About this book
This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the origins of Fascism and the movement's taking and consolidation of power. Philip Morgan:
· explains how the experience of the First World War created Fascism
· describes how the unsettled post-war conditions in Italy enabled an initially small group of political adventurers around Mussolini to build a large movement and take power in 1922
· focuses on the workings of the first ever 'totalitarian' system and its impacts on the lives and outlooks of ordinary Italians
· considers the meshing of internal 'fascistisation' and expansionism, which emerged most clearly after 1936 as Italy became more closely aligned with Nazi Germany
· examines the demise of Italian Fascism between 1943 and 1945 as Mussolini and his party became the puppets of Nazism
· provides an explanation and interpretation of Fascism, locating it in contemporary history and taking account of recent debates on the nature of the phenomenon.
Clear and approachable, this essential text is ideal for anyone interested in Italy's turbulent political history in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Fascism, 1915-1945
Authors: Philip Morgan
Series Title: The Making of the Twentieth Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80267-4
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIII, 262
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Political History