The United States And Fascist Italy 1922 1940

Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469639871

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The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940 by David F. Schmitz Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolini's Italy. Schmitz argues that the U.S. desire for order, interest in Open Door trade, and concern about left-wing revolution led American policymakers to welcome Mussolini's coming to power and to support fascism in Italy for most of the interwar period. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0598033068

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The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940 by David F. Schmitz Pdf

Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521856027

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Mussolini and His Generals by John Gooch Pdf

Study of the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy, 1922 to 1940.

Author : Alessandra Tarquini
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299336202

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A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 by Alessandra Tarquini Pdf

Alessandra Tarquini’s A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 is widely recognized as an authoritative synthesis of the field. The book was published to much critical acclaim in 2011 and revised and expanded five years later. This long-awaited translation presents Tarquini’s compact, clear prose to readers previously unable to read it in the original Italian. Tarquini sketches the universe of Italian fascism in three broad directions: the regime’s cultural policies, the condition of various art forms and scholarly disciplines, and the ideology underpinning the totalitarian state. She details the choices the ruling class made between 1922 and 1943, revealing how cultural policies shaped the country and how intellectuals and artists contributed to those decisions. The result is a view of fascist ideology as a system of visions, ideals, and, above all, myths capable of orienting political action and promoting a precise worldview. Building on George L. Mosse’s foundational research, Tarquini provides the best single-volume work available to fully understand a complex and challenging subject. It reveals how the fascists used culture—art, cinema, music, theater, and literature—to build a conservative revolution that purported to protect the traditional social fabric while presenting itself as maximally oriented toward the future.

Author : Gian Giacomo Migone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107002456

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The United States and Fascist Italy by Gian Giacomo Migone Pdf

Originally published in Italian in 1980, Migone covers the relationship between the United States and Italy during the interwar years.

Author : Eden K. McLean
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496207203

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Mussolini's Children by Eden K. McLean Pdf

Author : Elisabetta Tollardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349950287

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Fascist Italy and the League of Nations, 1922-1935 by Elisabetta Tollardo Pdf

This book analyses the relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations in the interwar years. By uncovering the traces of those Italians working in the organization, this volume investigates Fascist Italy’s membership of the League, and explores the dynamics between nationalism and internationalism in Geneva. The relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations was contradictory, shifting from active collaboration to open disagreement. Previous literature has not reflected this oscillation in policy, focusing disproportionally on the problems Italy caused for the League, such as the Ethiopian crisis. Yet Fascist Italy remained in the League for more than fifteen years, and was the third largest power within the institution. How did a Fascist dictatorship fit into an organization espousing principles of liberal internationalism? By using archival sources from four countries, Elisabetta Tollardo shows that Fascist Italy was much more concerned with, and involved in, the League than currently believed.

Author : Max Gallo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429655432

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Mussolini's Italy by Max Gallo Pdf

Originally published in 1964, this book holds the story of Italian Fascism and its leader up to the light. Gallo explains how Fascism triumphed in Italy, what it did to and for that country, and what its heritage is for present-day Italy. The character of Mussolini is explored as it is interwoven with the history of the dictatorship he founded, and Gallo demonstrates beyond doubt the enthusiasm with which Italian industry, finance, and business supported Mussolini's self-styled, anti-capitalist movement.

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938052

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Fascist Modernities by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Pdf

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that—at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities—Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520242166

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Fascist Modernities by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Pdf

This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past.

Author : Victoria de Grazia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520074576

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How Fascism Ruled Women by Victoria de Grazia Pdf

"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side

Author : Jacqueline Reich,Piero Garofalo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253109149

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Re-viewing Fascism by Jacqueline Reich,Piero Garofalo Pdf

When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda. Re-viewing Fascism considers the many films that failed as "weapons" in creating cultural consensus and instead came to reflect the complexities and contradictions of Fascist culture. The volume also examines the connection between cinema of the Fascist period and neorealism—ties that many scholars previously had denied in an attempt to view Fascism as an unfortunate deviation in Italian history. The postwar directors Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio de Sica all had important roots in the Fascist era, as did the Venice Film Festival. While government censorship loomed over Italian filmmaking, it did not prevent frank depictions of sexuality and representations of men and women that challenged official gender policies. Re-viewing Fascism brings together scholars from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds as it offers an engaging and innovative look into Italian cinema, Fascist culture, and society.

Author : Guido Bonsaver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802094964

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Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy by Guido Bonsaver Pdf

The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that literature and print media can be manipulated and made into vehicles of mass deception. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy is the first comprehensive account of how the Fascists attempted to control Italy's literary production. Guido Bonsaver looks at how the country's major publishing houses and individual authors responded to the new cultural directives imposed by the Fascists. Throughout his study, Bonsaver uses rare and previously unexamined materials to shed light on important episodes in Italy's literary history, such as relationships between the regime and particular publishers, as well as individual cases involving renowned writers like Moravia, Da Verona, and Vittorini. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy charts the development of Fascist censorship laws and practices, including the creation of the Ministry of Popular Culture and the anti-Semitic crack-down of the late 1930s. Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship.

Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241185711

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Mussolini's War by John Gooch Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties and an Allied invasion in 1943 which ushered in a terrible new era for the country. John Gooch's new book is the definitive account of Italy's war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a leadership and too many fronts on which to fight. Everywhere - whether in the USSR, the Western Desert or the Balkans - Italian troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the dreams of pre-war Italian planners - a series of desperate improvizations against Allies who could draw on global resources and against whom Italy proved helpless. This remarkable book rightly shows the centrality of Italy to the war, outlining the brief rise and disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. 'It is hard to imagine a finer account, both of the sweep of Italy's wars, and of the characters caught up in them' Caroline Moorhead, The Guardian

Author : Katy Hull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691208121

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The Machine Has a Soul by Katy Hull Pdf

A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period In the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of democracy. These issues prompted a profound ambivalence toward modernity, leading some individuals to turn to Italian fascism as a possible solution for the problems facing the country. The Machine Has a Soul delves into why Americans of all stripes sympathized with Italian fascism, and shows that fascism’s appeal rested in the image of Mussolini’s regime as “the machine which will run and has a soul”—a seemingly efficient and technologically advanced system that upheld tradition, religion, and family. Katy Hull focuses on four prominent American sympathizers: Richard Washburn Child, a conservative diplomat and Republican operative; Anne O’Hare McCormick, a distinguished New York Times journalist; Generoso Pope, an Italian-American publisher and Democratic political broker; and Herbert Wallace Schneider, a Columbia University professor of moral philosophy. In fascism’s violent squads they saw youthful glamour and impeccable manners, in the megalomaniacal Mussolini they perceived someone both current and old-fashioned, and in the corporate state they witnessed a politics that could revive addled minds. They argued that with the right course of action, the United States could use fascism to take the best from modernity while withstanding its harmful effects. Investigating the motivations of American fascist sympathizers, The Machine Has a Soul offers provocative lessons about authoritarianism’s appeal during times of intense cultural, social, and economic strain.