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  • Published: 1 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9781844130900
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

Fascism

A History




'A solid-history of the movement in Italy and Germany, where it took root, and France and Britain, where it failed to flourish' - Ian Thomson, Guardian

Fascism is one of the most destructive and influential political movements of the twentieth century. Its imagery - of mad dictators and nihilistic violence - haunts our imaginations, and its historical legacy is almost too momentous to be understood. At the same time it is curiously elusive: how do we define fascism? What is the basis of its appeal? Why did it take root so successfully in Germany and Italy, and not in France or Britain?

Fascism: A History - a sweeping, enthralling study - tackles theses questions, and considers fascism in the round. It draws together its different strands, in Italy, Germany, France, and Britain, looking at its evolution up and during World War II; and it assesses post-war fascism, and examines its future in a Europe whose boundaries continue to change. Along the way, Fascism provides vivid portraits of Mussolini, Hitler, Oswald Mosley and other key figures within the movement. Lucid, dramatic, challenging, Fascism is a definitive book of its kind.

  • Published: 1 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9781844130900
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Roger Eatwell

Roger Eatwell is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Bath. He has published widely on fascism and populism, including Fascism: a History.

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Praise for Fascism

Mr Eatwell is a learned and careful scholar who has read a formidable list of sources, often very recondite, and he handles his material judiciously

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph

A wide-ranging and thoroughly up-to-date survey... bravely argued, for there still exists a good deal of scholarly hostility to the idea that fascism did constitute a serious intellectual alternative

Richard Overy, Sunday Times

Stands out from almost everything else which has appeared on the subject by being as illuminating to the specialist as to the general reader

Searchlight, Roger Griffin

It takes us from Nietzsche and Romantic movement to cyber space oiks who swap neo-fascist sentiments... on the Internet

Ian Thomson, Guardian