Dictating demography : the problem of population in fascist Italy / Carl Ipsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ipsen, Carl, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 28.

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--Population--History.

Italy.

Italy--Population policy--History.

Italy--History--1922-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the Fascists attempted to translate that belief into policy by introducing a structured programme to increase the population in Italy. This included campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic colonies, and a battle against urbanisation. This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Based on archival research, it shows how the Fascists used statistics to mould public opinion, as well as to form policy, and demonstrates the ways in which population theory at the time both reflected and informed policy. Carl Ipsen argues that Mussolini's demographic policy can tell us a great deal about the contradictory nature of Fascism itself, and describes the Fascist efforts to mould the Italian population as one of the most telling examples of the failed attempt to create a totalitarian Fascist utopia.

Contents:

Table for lira conversation to 1990 US

1. The background: Fascism, European population policy, European demography, and the problem of population in Liberal Italy

2. The organization of totalitarian demography

3. The realization of totalitarian demography I: Spatial population management

4. The realization of totalitarian demography II: Quantitative and qualitative population management

5. The measurement of totalitarian demography.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511093968

0511093969

9780511821424

0511821425

9780511581953

0511581955

9780511000775

0511000774

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00478 hdl