Readership: Scholars and students of fascism and twentieth century history
Edited by R.J.B. Bosworth, Winthrop Professor of History, University of Western Australia and Professor of History, University of Reading
"This valuable collection brings readers the latest research and thinking and will prove invaluable to students of the twentieth century. " - Contemporary Review
"...offer[s] the reader access to many complex and fascinating episodes and aspects in fascism's history... " - Roger Griffin, English Historical Review
"An expert, and up-to-date representation of the "state of the art" of research into fascism, this is a volume that serious scholars of Europe's "Age of Extremes" will want to have on their bookshelves. " - Andrew G. Bonnell, Australian Journal of Politics and History
"Because of its breadth and depth, this lucid and in many ways excellent handbook will be one of the first ports of call for anyone interested in the history of fascism." - Christian Goeschel, H-Soz-u-Kult
Introduction Ideas and Formative Experience 1: Kevin Passmore: The ideological origins of Fascism before 1914 2: Alan Kramer: The First World War as Cultural Trauma 3: Richard Bessel: World War One as Totality 4: Glenda Sluga: The Aftermath of War The First Fascist Nation 5: Mimmo Franzinelli: Squadrism 6: Guido Bonsaver: Culture and Intellectuals 7: Roger Absalom: The Peasant Experience Under Italian Fascism 8: Philip Morgan: Corporatism and the Economic Order 9: John Pollard: Fascism and Catholicism 10: Patrizia Dogliani: Propaganda and Youth 11: Perry Willson: Women in Mussolini's Italy 1922-45 12: Mauro Canali: Crime and Repression 13: Davide Rodogno: Fascism and War 14: Richard Bosworth: Dictators, Strong or Weak? The Model of Benito Mussolini The Nazi Comparison 15: Gustavo Corni: State and Society: Italy and Germany Compared 16: Robert Gordon: Race 17: Jim Burgwyn: Diplomacy and World War: the (first) Axis of Evil Others 18: Roger Markwick: Communism: Fascism's 'other'? 19: Mary Vincent: Spain 20: Mark Pittaway: Hungary 21: Radu Ioanid: Romania 22: Marko Attila Hoare: Yugoslavia and its successor states 23: Corinna Peniston-Bird: Austria 24: Bob Moore: The Netherlands 25: Bruno de Wever: Belgium 26: Martin Pugh: Britain and its Empire 27: Joan Tumblety: France 28: Rikki Kersten: Japan Reflection and Legacies 29: Robert Paxton: Comparisons and Definitions 30: Nathan Stoltzfus and Richard Bosworth: Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy 31: Anna Cento Bull: Neofascism
