Fascist interactions
Subtitle: proposals for a new approach to fascism and its era, 1919-1945
By: David D. Roberts
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781785331305; 9781785331312
Subjects: Historiography; Politics and government; Study and teaching (Higher); Fascism; Right and left (Political science); History
Description: "Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus on the relationships among different fascist formations before 1945. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this rigorous volume charts a historiographical path that transcends rigid distinctions while still developing meaningful criteria of differentiation. Even as we take fascism seriously as a political phenomenon, such an approach allows us to better understand its distinctive contradictions and historical variations"--From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Problems and prospects; title: New restiveness, new possibilities, and unfinished business in fascist studies; title: Assessing the new restiveness; title: Transnational turn, unfinished business, and some preliminary categories and distinctions; title: Part II. Modes of epochal interaction; title: Internal interaction : fascists, conservatives, and the establishment; title: Supranational interaction within the New Right; title: Interaction with the liberal democracies; title: Interaction across the left-right divide and uncertainty over "totalitarianism"; title: Part III. Some tentative prescriptions; title: Categories for us : blurring and rigor; title: Fascism as "epochal" or continuing possibility?