1st Edition

Fascism and Ideology Italy, Britain, and Norway

By Salvatore Garau Copyright 2015
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-war years as case studies: Italy, Britain and Norway. It explores how fascist ideology was the result of a sustained struggle between competing internal factions, which created a precarious, but also... Read more

Introduction  Part One: "Success": Italy, 1910-1939  1. At the Roots of Fascism’s Ideological Fluidity: The Italian Nationalist Association and the National Syndicalist Movement  2. Totalitarian Inclusiveness: Italian Fascism from Marginality to Mass Movement, 1919-1922  3. The Labourious Search for a Balance: Italian Fascism as a Regime, 1923-1939  Part Two: "Failure": Britain and Norway, 1923-1939  4. Into the Arms of Fascism: Left, Right and New Combinations of Political Concepts in Britain and Norway, 1923-1933  5. Building an Inclusive Political Platform: The British Union of Fascists and the Nasjonal Samling, 1932-1934  6. Between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: From Expansion to Implosion, 1934-1939.  Conclusions

Biography

Salvatore Garau, Ph.D. (London, 2010), has published extensively on fascism and inter-war nationalism, and has co-edited a book on fascist antisemitism in Italy and Britain.