Ordinary violence in Mussolini's Italy / Michael R. Ebner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebner, Michael R., 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.

Mussolini, Benito.

Fascism--Italy--History--20th century.

Fascism.

Political violence--Italy--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Political persecution--Italy--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

Deportation--Italy--History--20th century.

Deportation.

Imprisonment--Italy--History--20th century.

Imprisonment.

State-sponsored terrorism--Italy--History--20th century.

State-sponsored terrorism.

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

Italy.

Italy--Social conditions--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy analyses this system of political confinement and, more broadly, its effects on Italian society, revealing the centrality of political violence to Fascist rule. In doing so, the book shatters the widely accepted view that the Mussolini regime ruled without a system of mass repression. The Fascist state ruled Italy violently, projecting its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination and other quotidian forms of coercion. Moreover, by promoting denunciatory practices, the regime cemented the loyalties of 'upstanding' citizens while suppressing opponents, dissenters and social outsiders. Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

Contents:

Introduction: The Fascist archipelago

Squad violence

Institutions of Fascist violence

Breaking the anti-fascists, 1926-1934

The archipelago

The politics of pardons

Everyday political crime

Ordinary Fascist violence

The politics of everyday life.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21678-8

1-139-13998-3

0-511-77872-4

1-280-77618-8

1-139-13922-3

9786613686572

1-139-14168-6

1-139-14080-9

1-139-13767-0

1-139-14500-2

OCLC:

782876845