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In the Society of Fascists

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Roberta Pergher, Giulia Albanese (Editors), In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Giulia Albanese, Roberta Pergher
Giulia Albanese is an assistant professor at the University of Padova. Her research focuses on the origins of fascism, political violence, and authoritarian cultures. Currently she works on a comparative study examining political violence and institutional crisis in Spain, Portugal, and Italy in the 1920s. She is the author of  La Marcia su Roma (2006) and Alle origini del fascismo. La violenza politica a Venezia (1919-1922) (2001).Roberta Pergher is an assistant professor at the University of Kansas. She has been a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a postdoctoral fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests are centered in the history of Modern Europe, in particular the history of Italy and Germany, and include the topics of comparative fascism, colonialism, and borderland studies. She is the author of several articles on Fascist demographic policy and settler experiences. Roberta Pergher is an assistant professor at the University of Kansas. She has been a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a postdoctoral fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests are centered in the history of Modern Europe, in particular the history of Italy and Germany, and include the topics of comparative fascism, colonialism, and borderland studies. She is the author of several articles on Fascist demographic policy and settler experiences.

It has been a commonplace in Italian scholarship that Fascism enjoyed its long tenure not through terror but because of widespread popular consensus. By contrast a recent wave of research has reintroduced the notion of ‘totalitarianism’ to discussions of Mussolini’s regime—yet often without testing the degree of active participation or opposition.

So what was the relationship between Fascists and followers, party and people? Bringing together young Italian scholars—many appearing for the first time in English—engaged in new research on both elites and ordinary people, this volume offers a wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Italian society’s involvement in Fascism.

Content:

Historians, Fascism, and Italian Society: Mapping the Limits of Consent; R.Pergher & G.Albanese

Borghesi in Uniform: Masculinity, Militarism, and the Brutalization of Politics from World War I to the Rise of Fascism; L.Benadusi

Violence and Political Participation during the Rise of Fascism (1919-1926); G.Albanese

Consent, Mobilization, and Participation: The Rise of the Middle Class and its Support for the Fascist Regime; T.Baris

Neither Bluff nor Revolution: The Corporations and the Consolidation of the Fascist Regime (1925-1926); M.Pasetti

The Entrepreneurial Bourgeoisie and Fascism; A.Gagliardi

The Allure of the Welfare State; C.Giorgi

The ‘New Racist Man’: Italian Society and the Fascist Anti-Jewish Laws; V.Galimi

The Consent of Memory: Recovering Fascist-Settler Relations in Libya; R.Pergher

The Royal Army’s Betrayal? Two Different Italian Policies in Yugoslavia (1941-1943);

E.Gobetti, Clio Among the Camicie Nere: Italian Historians and their Allegiances to Fascism (1930s-1940s); M.Angelini

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