The Failure of British Fascism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: ‘Tomorrow We Live’ — The Failure of British Fascism?

   • Mike Cronin

   Pages 1-11

3. The Extreme Right in the 1920s: Fascism in a Cold Climate, or ‘Conservatism with Knobs on’?

   • David Baker

   Pages 12-28

4. State Management of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s

   • Richard Thurlow

   Pages 29-52

5. Oswald Mosley and the Union Movement: Success or Failure?

   • Anne Poole

   Pages 53-80

6. The Conservative Party, the British Extreme Right and the Problem of Political Space, 1967–83

   • Martin Durham

   Pages 81-98

7. The Esoteric Ideology of the National Front in the 1980s

   • Roger Eatwell

   Pages 99-117

8. Contemporary Fascism in the Local Arena: The British National Party and ‘Rights for Whites’

   • Nigel Copsey

   Pages 118-140

9. British Fascism: The Ugly Duckling

   • Roger Griffin

   Pages 141-165

10. British Fascism Revisited: A Failure of Imagination?

    • Kenneth Lunn

    Pages 166-180

11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-182

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This book focuses on the different fascist movements which have existed in Britain during the twentieth century from the British Fascists of the 1920s to the British National Party of the 1990s. Three main themes are covered in the book: an outline of the policies, tactics and ideologies of the different movements; a discussion of the notion of failure, and how that term should be applied to British fascism; and coverage of the different strengths of British political society which are seen to have prevented a breakthrough of British fascism in the arena of electoral politics.

• cognition
• Electoral
• fascism
• Ideologie
• ideology
• management
• politics
• state
• Union
• British Politics

• Sheffield Hallam University, UK

  Mike Cronin

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