Fascist Interactions: Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

Synopsis

Although Studies Of Fascism Have Constituted One Of The Most Fertile Areas Of Historical Inquiry In Recent Decades, More And More Scholars Have Called For A New Agenda With More Research Beyond Italy And Germany, Less Preoccupation With Definition And Classification, And More Sustained Focus On The Relationships Among Different Fascist Formations Before 1945. Starting From A Critical Assessment Of These Imperatives, This Rigorous Volume Charts A Historiographical Path That Transcends Rigid Distinctions While Still Developing Meaningful Criteria Of Differentiation. Even As We Take Fascism Seriously As A Political Phenomenon, Such An Approach Allows Us To Better Understand Its Distinctive Contradictions And Historical Variations--publisher's Website. Part I. Problems And Prospects -- New Restiveness, New Possibilities, And Unfinished Business In Fascist Studies -- Assessing The New Restiveness -- Transnational Turn, Unfinished Business, And Some Preliminary Categories And Distinctions -- Part Ii. Modes Of Epochal Interaction -- Internal Interaction : Fascists, Conservatives, And The Establishment -- Supranational Interaction Within The New Right -- Interaction With The Liberal Democracies -- Interaction Across The Left-right Divide And Uncertainty Over Totalitarianism -- Part Iii. Some Tentative Prescriptions -- Categories For Us : Blurring And Rigor -- Fascism As Epochal Or Continuing Possibility? David D. Roberts. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.