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  • The Global Impact of the March on Rome

    Edited by Giulia Albanese, Filippo Focardi, Matteo Millan, Marco Mondini ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    This comprehensive collection of chapters provides a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of the global impact of the March on Rome, offering valuable insights into the spread and adaptation of Fascist ideologies in different cultural and political contexts beyond Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.The chapters seek to contextualise the transformation of political cultures in 1920s Europe and provide a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Blackshirts’ Dictatorship

    Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini’s Regime

    by Matteo Millan ...
    Translated by Sergio Knipe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years. That power was obtained was largely due to the widespread violence perpetrated by blackshirts throughout Italy (squadristi). Violence however did not end. Old and new blackshirts played a major role in making Italy a fascist country. Contrary to the claims of many scholars that have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930

    In Defence of Freedom

    Edited by Matteo Millan, Alessandro Saluppo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.It retraces the formation of an extensive market for corporate policing, privately contracted security and ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Italy

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    by David Gilmour ...
    "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . an enduring tribute." —Ian Thomas, Evening StandardOne of The Economist 's Books of the YearDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The quest... ... Read more

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  • Mussolini in Myth and Memory

    The First Totalitarian Dictator

    by Paul Corner ...
    Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Italy

    Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...
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  • Garibaldi

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  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

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  • Anatomy of the Red Brigades

    The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

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  • A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

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  • Blood and Power

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