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Rethinking the Nature of Fascism Antonio Costa Pinto

Rethinking the Nature of Fascism By Antonio Costa Pinto

Rethinking the Nature of Fascism by Antonio Costa Pinto


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Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.

Rethinking the Nature of Fascism Summary

Rethinking the Nature of Fascism: Comparative Perspectives by Antonio Costa Pinto

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.

About Antonio Costa Pinto

GIULIA ALBANESE Research Fellow, the University of Padova, Italy MICHEL DOBRY Professor of Political Science, the Sorbonne (Universite Paris I), France ROGER EATWELL Professor of European Politics, the University of Bath, UK ROGER GRIFFIN Professor of Modern History, Oxford Brookes University, UK ARISTOTLE KALLIS Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Lancaster University, UK STEIN U. LARSEN Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics, the University of Bergen, Norway ADRIAN LYTTELTON Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Centre, Italy KEVIN PASSMORE Lecturer in History, University of Cardiff, UK STANLEY G. PAYNE Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA JOHN POLLARD Fellow in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder; A.Kallis Concluding Remarks; A.Lyttelton Index

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NLS9780230272965
9780230272965
0230272967
Rethinking the Nature of Fascism: Comparative Perspectives by Antonio Costa Pinto
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Palgrave Macmillan
2010-11-17
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