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Mussolini's Italy

By R. J. B. Bosworth

By R. J. B. Bosworth

By R. J. B. Bosworth

By R. J. B. Bosworth

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    About Mussolini’s Italy

    With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy’s darkest hour.

    About Mussolini’s Italy

    With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy’s darkest hour.

    About R. J. B. Bosworth

    R. J. B. Bosworth is an Australian historian and author and a recognized expert on Fascist Italy. He taught history at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia, and was a senior research fellow at Jesus College,… More about R. J. B. Bosworth

    About R. J. B. Bosworth

    R. J. B. Bosworth is an Australian historian and author and a recognized expert on Fascist Italy. He taught history at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia, and was a senior research fellow at Jesus College,… More about R. J. B. Bosworth

    Product Details

    Category: European World History | Politics

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 30, 2007 | 736 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143038566

    Category: European World History | Politics

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 30, 2007 | 720 Pages | ISBN 9781101078570
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    Praise

    Shrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, The New York Times)

    With this insightful, comprehensive study, Bosworth secures his place as one of the two leading historians in the English-speaking world . . . of twentieth-century Italy. (Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed review)

    A powerful work of scholarship, beautifully written, which should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Europe. (The Economist)

    Table Of Contents

    Mussolini’s ItalyList of illustrations
    List of abbreviations
    Note on further reading
    Maps
    Preface

    Introduction
    1. One Italy or another before 1914
    2. Liberal and dynastic war
    3. Popular and national war
    4. 1919
    5. Becoming a Fascist
    6. Learning to rule in the provinces
    7. Learning to rule from Rome
    8. Building a totalitarian dictatorship
    9. Forging Fascist society
    10. Placing Italy in Europe
    11. Going to the people
    12. Dictating full-time
    13. Becoming imperialists
    14. Embracing Nazi Germany
    15. Lurching into war
    16. The wages of Fascist war
    17. Losing all the wars
    18. The Fascist heritage

    Conclusion
    Notes
    Index

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