Opposing fascism : community, authority, and resistance in Europe / edited by Tim Kirk and Anthony McElligott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirk, Tim, 1958- editor.

McElligott, Anthony, 1955- editor.

Mazal Holocaust Collection, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Europe.

Fascism.

Anti-fascist movements--Europe.

Anti-fascist movements.

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative volume draws together a series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the 'age of fascism'. The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organized resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities within the communities, both national and local, that opposed fascism. The authors show that under the pressures of civil conflict, occupation, and even everyday life, motives were rarely as pure and political alignments seldom as straightforward as our reassuring collective memories of fascism and war have led us to believe. The combination of original research and engagement with relevant debates makes this collection invaluable both for researchers in the social and political history of World War II and for students of modern European history.

Contents:

Introduction: Community, authority and resistance to fascism / Tim Kirk, Anthony McElligott

The German revolution defeated and fascism deferred: the servicemen's revolt and social democracy at the end of the First World War, 1918-1920 / Nick Howard

Dangerous communities and conservative authority: the judiciary, Nazis and rough people, 1932-1933 / Anthony McElligott

The anti-fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933-1940: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson / Neil Barrett

Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution: the flaws in the Front / Helen Graham

The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932-1935: the nature of socialist republican and governmental opposition / Mike Cronin

Town councils of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region: local power, French power, German power / Yves Le Maner

Structures of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941-1944 / Mark Mazower

Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent / Tim Kirk

'Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938 / Hannes Sulzenbacher

'The years of consent'? Popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925-1940 / Philip Morgan

Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the Resistance / Perry R. Willson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12669-X

1-280-15190-0

0-511-11622-5

0-511-03958-1

0-511-14852-6

0-511-49707-5

0-511-33036-7

0-511-05314-2

OCLC:

475915150