Fascist Interactions: Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

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Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus on the relationships among different fascist formations before 1945. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this rigorous volume charts a historiographical path that transcends rigid distinctions while still developing meaningful criteria of differentiation. Even as we take fascism seriously as a political phenomenon, such an approach allows us to better understand its distinctive contradictions and historical variations. Contents Preface Part I — Problems and Prospects Chapter 1 — New Restiveness, New Possibilities, and Unfinished Business in Fascist Studies Chapter 2 — Assessing the New Restiveness Chapter 3 — Transnational Turn, Further Unfinished Business, and Some Preliminary Categories and Directions Part II — Modes of Epochal Interaction Chapter 4 — Internal Interaction: Fascists, Conservatives, and the Establishment Chapter 5 — Supranational Interaction within the New Right Chapter 6 — Interaction with the Liberal Democracies Chapter 7 — Interaction across the Left-Right Divide and Uncertainty over "Totalitarianism" Part III — Some Tentative Prescriptions Chapter 8 — Categories for Us: Blurring and Rigor Chapter 9 — Fascism as "Epochal" or Continuing Possibility? Chapter 10 — The Epochal Aggregate Works Cited Index