The Oxford Handbook of Fascism

Bibliographic Data

ID20004130
EditorsR J B Bosworth (0000-0001-7858-418X, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-09-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook Of Fascism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.001.0001
OpenAlexW1504006611
Open LibraryOL25972480M
ISBN9780199594788
LanguageEN
Citations received48

The Oxford Handbook of Fascism explores the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the ‘first Fascist nation’, the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The book also examines the roots of fascism before 1914 and its survival, whether in practice or in memory, after 1945. The analysis looks at both fascist ideas and practice, and at the often uneasy relationship between the two. The book is not designed to provide any final answers to the fascist problem and no quick definition emerges from its pages. Readers, instead, will find historical debate. On appropriate occasions, the authors disagree with each other and have not been forced into any artificial ‘consensus’, offering readers the chance to engage with the debates over a phenomenon that, more than any other single factor, led humankind into the catastrophe of the Second World War

Communism · Epistemology · Nazism · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Successor cardinal · World War II · Classics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Fascism