Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Problems and prospects -- New restiveness, new possibilities, and unfinished business in fascist studies -- Assessing the new restiveness -- Transnational turn, unfinished business, and some preliminary categories and distinctions -- Part II. Modes of epochal interaction -- Internal interaction : fascists, conservatives, and the establishment -- Supranational interaction within the New Right -- Interaction with the liberal democracies -- Interaction across the left-right divide and uncertainty over "totalitarianism" -- Part III. Some tentative prescriptions -- Categories for us : blurring and rigor -- Fascism as "epochal" or continuing possibility?
Summary:
"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"--From publisher's website.
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