Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo

Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo

Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo

Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo

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Overview

Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary history of the extreme right. The book explores the wide range of neo-Nazi groups that Colin Jordan led, contributed to and inspired throughout his time as Britain's foremost promoter of Nazi ideology.

In a period stretching from the close of the Second World War right up to the 2000s, Colin Jordan became politically engaged with a multitude of Nazi-inspired extremist groups, either as leader or as a key protagonist. Moreover, Jordan also developed critical relationships with larger, competitor extreme-right organisations and parties, including the Mosley's Union Movement, the National Front and the most recent incarnation of the British National Party. He fostered a number of transnational links throughout his years of activism as well, especially with American neo-Nazis. In recent years, his writings and somewhat idealised profile have been adopted by more contemporary extremist organisations, such as the British People's Party and a rekindled British Movement, who look to Jordan as an inspirational figure for their own reconfigurations of a National Socialist agenda.

By examining this history, drawing on a wide range of fresh primary sources, Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement offers a new analysis on the nature and workings of Nazi-inspired political extremism in post-war Britain. It is an important study for anyone interested in the history of fascism, extreme ideologies and the political and social history of Britain since the Second World War.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472509314
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/12/2017
Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. He is co-editor of The Anglo-American Far-Right: A Special Relationship of Hate, and has written widely on extreme right politics in Britain, and the history of fascism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. A Working Definition of Neo-Nazism
2. From Private Jordan to Emergent Leader
3. From Activist to Leader
4. The National Socialist Movement
5. The British Movement, 1968 – 1975
6. Semi-Retirement and Gothic Ripples
7. The Final Decade and Legacy
Conclusions
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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