The politics of everyday life in fascist Italy : outside the state? / Joshua Arthurs, Michael Ebner, Kate Ferris, editors.

Format:

Book

Series:

Italian and Italian American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--Social conditions--1918-1945.

Italy.

Social conditions.

Italy--Politics and government--1914-1945.

Politics and government.

Italy--History--1914-1945.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 265 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime's incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians -- midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers -- over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction / Joshua Arthurs, Michael Ebner, and Kate Ferris

Origins / Matteo Millan

Masculinity / Lorenzo Benadusi

Coercion / Michael R. Ebner

Reproduction / Alessandra Gissi

Consumption / Kate Ferris

Borderlands / Maura Hametz

Empire / Roberta Pergher

Memory / Joshua Arthurs

Conclusion: troubling coercion and consent - everydayness, ideology, and effect in German and Italian fascism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.

ISBN:

1137594187

9781137594181

OCLC:

964383729