Fascist modernities : Italy, 1922-1945 / Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth.

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 42.

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism and culture--Italy--History.

Fascism and culture.

Fascism--Italy--History.

Fascism.

Italy--Politics and government--1922-1945.

Italy.

Italy--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 317 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that-at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities-Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Toward a Fascist Culture

2. Narrating the Nation

3. Envisioning Modernity

4. Class Dismissed

5. Conquest and Collaboration

6. The Wars of Fascism

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612357909

9781282357907

1282357905

9780520242166

0520242165

9780520938052

0520938054

9781597346146

1597346144

OCLC:

475931157