General Information

Author/Creator

Gentile, Emilio, 1946-

Language

English.

Published

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Physical Description

xix, 201 p. ; 25 cm.

Series

Italian and Italian American studies, 1530-7263

Subjects

Subject

Nationalism > Italy > History > 20th century.

National characteristics, Italian.

Italy > Politics and government > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Emilio Gentile ; foreword by Stanley G. Payne.

Content

Introduction: Italian nationalism and modernity -- 1. The struggle for modernity: echoes of the Dreyfus affair in Italian political culture, 1898-1912 -- 2. Conflicting modernisms: La Voce against futurism -- 3. The conquest of modernity: from modernist nationalism to fascism -- 4. Myth and organization: the rationale of fascist mass politics -- 5. The problem of the party in Italian fascism -- 6. The theatre of politics in fascist Italy -- 7. Mussolini's charisma -- 8. I Fasci Italiani dell'Estero: the "foreign policy" of the fascist party -- 9. Impending modernity? fascism and the ambivalent image of the United States -- Conclusion: the end of a myth.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0275976920

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	945.091 GEN		General Stacks	With the inscription by the author.

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