Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century: Against Democracy

by Ismael Saz (Editor), Zira Box (Editor), Toni Morant (Editor), Juliïn Sanz (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a comparative study of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms. It presents these as transnational political cultures and examines the dictatorships and regimes in which these cultures played significant roles. The book is organised into three main sections, focusing on nationalists, fascists and dictatorships in turn. The chapters range across French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German experiences, and include a broader overview of the political cultures in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America. The chapters consider the identities, organizations and evolution of the various cultures and specific political movements, alongside the intersections between these movements and how they adapted to changing contexts. By doing so, the book offers a global view of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms, and promotes debate around these political cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030224103
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/24/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Political History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	357
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ismael Saz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Zira Box is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Toni Morant is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Julián Sanz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction – Ismael Saz, Zira Box, Toni Morant, Julián Sanz.- Part I Reactionary Nationalisms.- 2 The Action Française in a Transnational Perspective – Olivier Dard.- 3 “Fellow travellers”: the history and evolution of the relationship between the nationalists and the fascists – Lorenzo Benadusi.- 4 The intellectual roots and political foundations of reactionary Spanish nationalism in an international context – Maximiliano Fuentes.- 5 Reactionary Nationalism and Fascism: The German Case – Hermann Beck.- 6 Around the Ways of the Rights in South America in the early Twentieth Century. Problems and Questions – Fernando Devoto.- Part II Fascisms.- 7 Fascism and fascists in Italy – Patrizia Dogliani.- 8 The German Fascists: Nazi Political Culture – Toni Morant.- 9 Fascisms in France – Olivier Forlin.- 10 A fascism that came to stay? On Falange’s political culture – Julián Sanz Hoya.- 11 The Portuguese “Blue Shirts” and Salazar’s “New State” – António Costa Pinto.- 12 Fascism in Central Europe: Big Fascisms in (not that) small countries – Traian Sandu.- Part III Dictatorships.- 13 Political Cultures in the Fascist Regime, Transversalities and Contradictions – Ismael Saz.- 14 National Socialists and Conservative Nationalists in the German Dictatorship – Michael Grüttner.- 15 The Portuguese New State in Comparative Perspective. The Constitutional Foundations of an Ethical State – Gofredo Adinolfi.- 16 The Franco Dictatorship: A proposal for analysis in terms of political cultures – Zira Box.- 17 Vichy, a Fascist State? – Olivier Wierwiorka.- 18 Authoritarianism, nationalism, fascism and National Security Doctrine. The debate on Latin American Southern Cone dictatorships – Daniel Lvovich.-

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Amid the current boom in scholarly writings about fascism and other right-wing political formations, this thoughtful and challenging new collection brings much-needed illumination to the convergences and separations that allow us to place these movements inside a shared twentieth-century political frame. Its authors do this not just comparatively, by bringing together expertly presented national case studies, but also transnationally, by showing how their interconnections might work.” (Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA)

“Reactionary nationalism, fascism and right wing dictatorships are historical phenomena, each with their own individuality, and none of them has the attribute of eternity or eternal return. To understand them in their own context and the various relationships between them, the book takes a comparative approach. Comparative history, warned Marc Bloch, one of its founders, is useful if it studies the differences more than the similarities. This book proposes comparative history at its best.” (Emilio Gentile, Professor Emeritus, University of Rome, Italy)

“By taking seriously ultra-nationalistic conservative ideologies of the past, this gem of a book comes at a time when the world seems overwhelmed by populist leaders.” (Marc Olivier Baruch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)