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The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy

Outside the State?

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Joshua Arthurs

    1. Department of History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

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  2. Michael Ebner

    1. Department of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

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  3. Kate Ferris

    1. School of History, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom

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  • Explores the complex ways in which ordinary people lived, worked and maneuvered within the confines of the Fascist system
  • Provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond
  • Appeals to scholars of Italian history, social history, political history and colonialism

Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joshua Arthurs, Michael Ebner, Kate Ferris
    Pages 1-17

  3. Origins

    • Matteo Millan
    Pages 19-49

  4. Masculinity

    • Lorenzo Benadusi
    Pages 51-75

  5. Coercion

    • Michael R. Ebner
    Pages 77-98

  6. Reproduction

    • Alessandra Gissi
    Pages 99-122

  7. Consumption

    • Kate Ferris
    Pages 123-149

  8. Borderlands

    • Maura Hametz
    Pages 151-178

  9. Empire

    • Roberta Pergher
    Pages 179-204

  10. Memory

    • Joshua Arthurs
    Pages 205-232

  11. Conclusion: Troubling Coercion and Consent—Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism

    • Geoff Eley
    Pages 233-255

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 257-265
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This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians – midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers – over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

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“A most impressive collection of essays that gives us a new and deeper understanding of what life was like for ordinary people under Mussolini's repressive regime … . Addressing a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the impact of fascist violence and the regime's dictates about everyday eating habits, to fascist ideas about masculinity, the role of coercion, the priorities of fascist education, abortion under fascism, and the attitudes of fascist colonisers in Libya,  this study throws fresh light on the ways in which people adjusted to a would-be totalitarian regime which tried to invade almost all aspects of daily life. A most welcome contribution that combines an innovative theoretical approach with a series of rich empirical studies.” (Paul Corner, Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, University of Siena, Italy)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

    Joshua Arthurs

  • Department of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Michael Ebner

  • School of History, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom

    Kate Ferris

About the editors

Joshua Arthurs is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA.

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