The Transnational Consensus

Fascism and Nazism in Current Research

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ID12270043
AutoresÁngel Alcalde (0000-0003-4048-812X, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume29
Fascículo2
Páginas243-252
Data de publicação2020-02-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary European History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0960777320000089
OpenAlexW3006537946
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas19

Transnational History emerged in the 1990s as a methodological perspective aiming to transcend the nation state as a prevalent unit of analysis. Akin to comparative history, transnational history focuses on transfers between countries and nations, cross-border exchanges and circulation of people and ideas, thus changing our understanding of modern historical phenomena and contributing to the development of global history. Today there is probably no modern historical subfield that has not heeded the new transnational insights. This review article argues that the history of fascism and national socialism have benefitted considerably from this epistemological advancement, and that this renewal has revolutionised our understanding of these ideologies, movements and regimes. Previously historians believed that fascism had emerged as a solution to the interwar crisis in different European nation states; ‘native’, ‘home-grown’ fascist movements, unique ultranationalist revolutionaries, spontaneously reacted to endogenous national problems and attempted a counterrevolution or national rebirth with different degrees of success. After the transnational turn, historians instead see fascism as a single transnational and global phenomenon that violently expanded throughout Europe and beyond by processes of transfer, mutual inspiration, hybridisation, interaction, entanglement and cross-border exchange

Communism · Ideology · Nazism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · World history · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law

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