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The Right and the Nation Transnational Perspectives
This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times.
The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the different cultures and movements of the Right, their broad geographical spread, as well as cultural factors. Adopting a transnational perspective, this volume highlights the significance of a series of processes – such as the growth of nationalist imaginaries and political cultures – that extended beyond national boundaries and were often articulated via cross-border dynamics. Special attention is paid to the political cultures and transnational networks of the Right in Europe and Latin America. Case studies including countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina provide the reader with a broad overview of the circulation of right-wing and conservative thinking.
Through an innovative approach, this volume offers scholars, students and the interested reader a valuable historical perspective to understand the development and expansion of right-wing nationalist and authoritarian positions.
Part 1: Discourses and projects
2. Transnational and Enduring: The Long March of Spanish Reactionary Nationalism
ISMAEL SAZ
3. Brazilian Integralist Action and Latin America: Fascist Projects and Transnational Circularities
LEANDRO PEREIRA GONÇALVES
4. The Transnational Falange and its Surveillance by US intelligence in the Río de La Plata Region
DANIEL LVOVICH
5. The far right in Southern Europe, otherness and transnationality in the 1930s and today
JORGE RAMOS TOLOSA
PART 2: Mass culture and cultural politics
6. National Cinemas in Nationalist Dictatorships in Italy and Spain during the Twenties
MARTA GARCÍA CARRIÓN
7. Nationalist Shifts and Visitor Exchanges in the Franco-Perón Relationship
NURIA TABANERA GARCÍA
8. Against Democracy. Right–Wing Supranational Horizons between Spain and Argentina (1914–1945)
MAXIMILIANO FUENTES CODERA
9. Cultural Policies in Spain, Portugal and Brazil during the Fascist Era: New books for a New State
GABRIELA DE LIMA GRECCO
PART 3: Nation and Religion. National catholicisms
10. Church, Catholicism and Nationalism: a Historiographical Approach
ALFONSO BOTTI
11. National sentiment and Catholic internationalism? The financial mobilisation of the faithful in favour of the papacy during the 1860s
ARTHUR HÉRISSON
12. A war of monuments: Religious and National Symbols in the Latin public space (1871–1939)
JAVIER ESTEVE MARTÍ
PART 4: Gender and Nation in right-wing imaginaries
13. Quelling the Romantic Volcano: Catholic Antiliberalism and National Masculinities in the Mid–Nineteenth Century
XAVIER ANDREU-MIRALLES
14. From social to reproductive citizens: Family and gender in the Catholic social reform between Spain and Europe
INMACULADA BLASCO HERRANZ
15. Virility as an Ideal of National Regeneration in Spanish Fascism
ZIRA BOX
16. Gender and the Nation for Fascist Women in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s
TONI MORANT
PART 5: Nations and territories
17. The Relationship between Centre and Periphery in Italian Fascism and Francoism: The Role of the Provinces
JULIÁN SANZ HOYA
18. The Political Right and National Projects in France, Italy, and Spain, c.1968–c.1986
FERRAN ARCHILÉS & VEGA RODRÍGUEZ-FLORES
Biography
Toni Morant is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. His most important research focuses on interwar fascism from a transnational and gender perspective, and he co-edited the collection Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships. Against Democracy (2019).
Julián Sanz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. His main research field focuses on the Spanish right and the Franco dictatorship, and his more recent book is España en camisa azul. Falange, cultura política y poderes locales (2022).
Ismael Saz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Valencia University. His main research field is focused on fascist and nationalist political cultures, as well as on Franco dictatorship. His more important works included España contra España (2003), Fascismo y franquismo (2004) and the co-edition of Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships. Against Democracy (2019).
