Fascist modernities
Subtitle: Italy, 1922-1945
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ;; 42
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History.; Fascism -- Italy -- History.; Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: "Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. This work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.