Introduction : Fascism and other '-isms' / António Costa Pinto -- Decomposition and recomposition of theories : how to arrive at useful ideas explaining Fascism / Stein U. Larsen -- Desperately seeking 'generic Fascism' : some discordant thoughts on the academic recycling of indigenous categories / Michel Dobry -- Fascism and culture : a mosse-centric and meta-narrative (or how Fascist studies reinvented the wheel) / Roger Griffin -- Theories of Fascism : a critique from the perspective of women's and gender history / Kevin Passmore -- Fascism and religion / John Pollard -- Ideology, propaganda, violence and the rise of Fascism / Roger Eatwell -- Political violence and institutional crisis in interwar southern Europe / Giulia Albanese -- Ruling elites, political institutions and decision-making in Fascist-era dictatorships : comparative perspectives / António Costa Pinto -- Fascism, 'licence' and genocide : from the chimera of rebirth to the authorization of mass murder / Aristotle Kallis -- Concluding remarks / Adrian Lyttelton
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
Englisch
Palgrave Macmillan
XV, 287 S
1. publ.
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