The Struggle for Modernity by Emilio Gentile
During the 20th century, Italy experienced some regrettable political developments. It was the first European nation after World War I in which a mass militia-party of revolutionary nationalism achieved power and abolished parliamentary democracy with the goal of building a totalitarian state. It was also the first in Europe to institutionalize the sacralization of politics and to celebrate officially the cult of the leader as a demi-God. These achievements were not accidents. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Italian nationalist movements, from the national radicalism of La Voce to futurist nationalism and fascism, fostered one of the strongest waves of European right-wing radicalism. The confrontation between nationalism and modernity is one of the main keys to understanding to the permutations of Italian radical nationalism from modernist avant-gardes up to the fascist regime. This book analyzes the ideological undercurrents and cultural myths that unite all these movements. Looking at Italian nationalism from its risorgimento roots to the neo-fascist heritage, Gentile considers the relationship between myth and organization in the making of the fascist state, the role of the party, the liturgy of mass politics in Italy, the fascist organizations abroad, and the attitude of fascist culture toward the United States.-
The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943
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The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini
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Making Liberalism Work
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Mussolinis Rome
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Places of Fascism
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Allied Prisoners of War in Italy, 1940–1943
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The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt
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Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992
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Mazzini and Marx
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Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution
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Carlo Tresca
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Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry
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Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925
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A Social History of Administrative Science in Italy
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Murder and Media in the New Rome
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Italian Fashion since 1945
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Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film
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Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen
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Jewish Women in the Early Italian Womens Movement, 18611945
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The Development of Agricultural Science in Northern Italy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
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The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism
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Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 19451975
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Naples and the Nation
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Human Nature in Rural Tuscany
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Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War
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Naples and the anglophone
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The Works of Elena Ferrante
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Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya
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Postcolonial Italy
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Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 17501850
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Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture
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New Reflections on Primo Levi
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City and Nation in the Italian Unification
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The Failure of Italian Nationhood
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Memory and Massacre
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Italy on the Pacific
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The Italian Army in Slovenia
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In the Society of Fascists
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Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws
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Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism
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The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy
EMILIO GENTILE is a contemporary historian of international reputation and a leading scholar of Fascism, totalitarianism, and political religions. He is the author of twelve books, and his major works and articles have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. He is co-editor of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions and is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Contemporary History and Modernism/Modernity. He currently teaches in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Rome.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780275976927 |
| ISBN 10 | 0275976920 |
| Title | The Struggle for Modernity |
| Author | Emilio Gentile |
| Series | Italian And Italian American Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2003-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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