Overview
- Explores the coexistence of fascism and reactionary nationalism within a range of twentieth-century dictatorships and regimes
- Focuses on key Western European case studies, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany, as well as briefer overviews of political cultures in Eastern Europe and Latin America
- Takes a global approach to understanding how these cultures and specific political movements evolved during the interwar period
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political History (PSPH)
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About this book
This book provides a comparative study of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms. It presents these as transnational political cultures and examines the dictatorships and regimes in which these cultures played significant roles. The book is organised into three main sections, focusing on nationalists, fascists and dictatorships in turn. The chapters range across French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German experiences, and include a broader overview of the political cultures in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America. The chapters consider the identities, organizations and evolution of the various cultures and specific political movements, alongside the intersections between these movements and how they adapted to changing contexts. By doing so, the book offers a global view of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms, and promotes debate around these political cultures.
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Keywords
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Reactionary Nationalisms
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Fascisms
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Dictatorships
Reviews
“Reactionary nationalism, fascism and right wing dictatorships are historical phenomena, each with their own individuality, and none of them has the attribute of eternity or eternal return. To understand them in their own context and the various relationships between them, the book takes a comparative approach. Comparative history, warned Marc Bloch, one of its founders, is useful if it studies the differences more than the similarities. This book proposes comparative history at its best.” (Emilio Gentile, Professor Emeritus, University of Rome, Italy)
“By taking seriously ultra-nationalistic conservative ideologies of the past, this gem of a book comes at a time when the world seems overwhelmed by populist leaders.” (Marc Olivier Baruch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ismael Saz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.
Zira Box is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universitat de València, Spain.
Toni Morant is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.Julián Sanz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century
Book Subtitle: Against Democracy
Editors: Ismael Saz, Zira Box, Toni Morant, Julián Sanz
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22411-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22410-3Published: 07 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22413-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22411-0Published: 23 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5176
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5184
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History