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Taylor & Francis AntiPolitical Establishment Parties A Comparative Analysis Extremism and Democracy
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Taylor & Francis Difficult Heritage
Book SynopsisHow does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture. The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city's architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively Trade Review"Sharon Macdonald deftly handles this complex terrain, offering a sophisticated theoretical analysis based on a well-grounded ethnographic study. In other words, this book is an exceptional piece of anthropology."-Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh,Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Current Anthropology, Volume 51, Number 3, June 2010Table of Contents1. Negotiating Difficult Heritage: Introduction 2. Building Heritage: Words in Stone? 3. Demolition, Cleansing and Moving On 4. Preservation, Profanation and Image-Management 5. Accompanied Witnessing: Education, Art and Alibis 6. Cosmopolitan Memory in the City of Human Rights 7. Negotiating on the Ground(s): Guided Tours of Nazi Heritage 8. Visting Difficult Heritage 9. Unsettling Difficult Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Fascism and Political Theory
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Taylor & Francis Fascism and Political Theory
Book SynopsisFascism and Political Theory offers both students and researchers a thematic analysis of fascism, focusing on the structural and ideological links between fascism, capitalism and modernity. Intended as a critical discussion of the origins and development of fascist ideology, each chapter deals with a core substantive issue in political theory relevant to the study of fascism and totalitarianism, beginning with an assessment of the current state of debate. The emphasis on formal ideology in contemporary Anglo-American historiography has increased our awareness of the complexity and eclectic nature of fascist ideologies which challenge liberalism and social democracy. Yet in too many recent works, a programmatic or essentialist reading of fascist ideology as a secular religion' is taken for granted, while researchers remain preoccupied with the search for an elusive fascist minimum'. In this book Woodley emphasizes that many outstanding questions remain, includiTrade ReviewThis is a captivating and well-researched contribution to political theory and historical sociology. Woodley’s sophisticated, wide-ranging, and clearly-written book convincingly dissects the anatomy of fascism, including its relation to the modern imperial-international context. - Patricia Owens, author of Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Oxford, 2007)Table of Contents1. Fascism and Political Theory 2. Fascism, Rationality and Modernity 3. Fascism and Social Structure 4. Fascism, Sovereignty and the State 5. Fascism and Violence 6. Fascism, Capitalism and the Market 7. Fascism and Nationalism 8. Fascism and Race 9. Fascism, Gender and Sexuality
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Taylor & Francis Extreme Right Activists in Europe
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Taylor & Francis The Making of AntiMuslim Protest
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Taylor & Francis Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume III Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships Theory History of Interpretations Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Six Years of Hitler RLE Responding to Fascism The Jews Under the Nazi Regime Routledge Library Editions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Global Populism
Book SynopsisThis volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally. When seeking power, populists politicize issues, and point to problems that need to be addressed such as inequalities, the loss of national sovereignty to globalization, or the rule of unresponsive political elites. Yet their solutions tend to be problematic, simplistic, and in most instances, instead of leading to better forms of democracy, their outcomes are authoritarian. Populists use a playbook of concentrating power in the hands of the president, using the legal system instrumentally to punish critics, and attacking the media and civil society. Despite promising to empower the people, populists lead to processes of democratic erosion and even transform malfunctioning democracies into hybrid regimes.The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism provides instructors, students, and researchers with a thorough and systematic overview of the history and development of populism and analyzes the main debates. It isTrade Review"It broadens our view and provides rich material for a more empirically based debate on populism and, most of all, on the reasons for its development."Dirk Jörke, Professor of Political Theoy, TU Darmstadt, Germany"The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism by Carlos de la Torre is one the best anthologies I have read in recent years. The book has two major pluses. First, top-notch author have provided clearly written, well-argued, and engaging chapters with up-to-date bibliographies on the topic. These include authors such as Andrew Arato, Jean Cohen, Steven Levitsky, Kurt Weyland, Kenneth Roberts, Nadia Urbinati, Robert Barr, Kirk Hawkins, Benjamin Moffitt, Paul Blokker, and Federico Finchelstein. The second plus is the thematic scope of the contributions and the consideration of competing approaches. In addition to de la Torre’s general introduction and a coauthored afterword, the twenty-eight chapters deal with everything one would want to know about the phenomenon…In short, this book is a must read because of its scope and high scholarly level. It will be very useful for teachers seeking up-to-date articles on populism for their course syllabi, and it is a lifesaver for students preparing term papers and dissertations on the subject. I highly recommend it, and I am currently using it in an undergraduate course on political processes and in a graduate seminar on contemporary political theory."Benjamin Arditi, Professor of Politics, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico Table of Contents1. Global Populism: Histories, Trajectories, Problems and Challenges Part 1: Contemporary Theories of Populism 2. Populist Ideologies 3. Populist Political Strategies 4. Discourse Theories: Ernesto Laclau and the Essex School Part 2: Regional Trajectories 5. Populism in the US 6. Contemporary/21st century Populism in Europe 7. Populism in Latin America 8. Populism in Africa 9. Populists in Asia: Fighting Social Immobility or Entrenching Autocracy? 10. Populism in the Middle East Part 3: Populism and Democracy 11. Populism and Late Liberalism 12. Leftwing Populism and Democratization 13. Populism and Democracy in Europe 14. Populist Leadership, Party Institutionalisation and Democratisation in Africa 15. Populism and Democracy Part 4: Populism, Authoritarianism, Fascism 16. Populism and Trans-Atlantic Fascism 17. Postfascism and Populism in Europe 18. Populist Authoritarianism 19. Populism and Competitive Authoritarianism Part 5: The Populist Politization of Inequalities and Differences 20. Left Populism and the Politization of Neoliberal Exclusions in Latin America and Southern Europe 21. Islamic Populism and the Politization of Neoliberal Inequalities 22. Populism and Race in the US 23. Populism, Migration, and Xenophobia in Europe 24. Populism and Race/Ethnicity in Latin America 25. Ethnopopulism in Africa Part 6: Populism and the Media 17. Latin America 18. Asia, and Europe 19. Europe 20. Israel 21. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe
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Taylor & Francis Politics of National Identity in Italy
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Taylor & Francis Six Years of Hitler Routledge Library Editions Responding to Fascism The Jews Under the Nazi Regime
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Taylor & Francis Nazi Foreign Policy 19331941 The Road to Global War Third Reich
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Atlas of Nazi Germany Political Economic and Social Anatomy of the Third Reich
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Taylor & Francis East London for Mosley The British Union of Fascists in East London and SouthWest Essex 193340
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Replacement
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism.The book focuses on population replacement conspiracy theories, that is, those imaginaries and discourses centered on the idea that the national population is under threat of being overtaken or even wiped out by those considered as âœalienâ to the nation and that this is the result of concerted efforts by âœelitesâ. Replacement conspiracy theories are on the rise again: from Eurabia fantasies to Renaud Camusâ The Great Replacement, white supremacist discourses are thriving and increasingly broadcasting in mainstream venues. To account for their rise and spread, this edited volume brings together research on various dimensions of population replacement conspiracy theories: different theoretical and methodological approaches, different social scientific and humanities (inter)disciplinary backgrounds, different geographical case studies (across Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania), different time periods (medieval archives, colonial archives, Nazi archives, postcolonial migrations, post-9/11), and different forms of racialization and racisms (Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism against migrants and refugees). It also explores the entanglement of population replacement discourse with gendered violence. The book is organized into four sections: (1) exploring the historical background of the current rise of demographic conspiracy theories; (2) tracing the (neoliberal) governmentalities in and through which replacement discourse operates; (3) analyzing the particularly intense focus on the threat of Muslims in contemporary replacement conspiracy theories, and (4) investigating the connection between replacement conspiracies, gender, and violence.This title is essential reading for scholars, journalists, and activists interested in the contemporary far right, conspiracy theories, and racisms.Trade Review'Nativism is the core ideological feature of the far right and is primarily expressed through replacement conspiracy theories. The Political of Replacement shows the mainstreaming and normalization of these deadly conspiracy theories in culture and politics as well as their deadly consequences around the world. Essential reading to understand the far-right threat to democracy!'Cas Mudde, University of Georgia, USA; author of The Far Right Today'In a “post-truth” society, disinformation campaigns, bigoted propaganda, and conspiracy theories circulate with impunity on social media platforms and within increasingly porous far-right echo chambers. The Politics of Replacement provides a timely and incisive cartography of demographic replacement theories and how they have gained traction and spread racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic ideologies transnationally. The book powerfully examines right-wing populist imaginaries that promote demographic fears, white nationalism, and anti-Muslim racism that create moral panics and shore up xenophobic state policies. The authors offer unique interdisciplinary vistas to unpack the various ways population replacement theories travel and mutate beyond their traditional discursive and geographic borders. These are not purely theoretical issues, rather they speak urgently to the need to understand and debunk the narratives that inspire xenophobic nationalism, Islamophobia, and racial violence across the globe. This book is a must read, alerting us to the discursive underpinnings of replacement theories and their historical, bio- political, gendered, religious, and racial formations as variegated transnational projects. Few books have managed to address the complexities of these issues with such intellectual skill, rigour, and compelling insight.'Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; author of Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation and The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White NorthTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Replacement: From “Race Suicide” to the “Great Replacement” PART I GENEALOGIES OF REPLACEMENT 1. Malthusian Fears in Current Migration Debates: Contemporary Manifestations of Malthusianization 2. Das Boot ist Voll, The Boat is Full: Genealogy and Policy Consequences of an Ecological-Nativist Paradigm 3. Birth Rates and the Cleansing of Impure Blood: Shaping the “Muslim Question” in the Balkans 4. “Reverse Colonization”: Early Narratives of Decline in the French New Right 5. European Histories, Australian Anxieties: The Christchurch Killer in Context 6. Ecofascism and the Politics of Replacement in the Discourse of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF REPLACEMENT 7. Colonial Census and Saffron Demography: The Shaping of Numerical Communities and Contestations in India 8. The Majority Oppressed? On the Legitimacy of Majority Rights 9. The Affordances of Replacement Narratives: How the White Genocide and Great Replacement Theories Converge in Poorly Moderated Online Milieus 10. Mainstreaming the Great Replacement: The Role of Centrist Discourses in the Mainstreaming of a Far-Right Conspiracy Theory 11. From Clashing Civilizations to the Replacement of Populations: The Transformation of Dutch Anti-immigration Discourse PART III ISLAMOPHOBIA AND REPLACEMENT 12. The Body Never ‘Falls Out’ of Islamophobia 13. The Gastro-Politics of Replacement: How Imaginations of a Muslim Takeover Become ‘Real’ Through Food 14. Striving for Transparency: Mosques as Sites for Public Interrogation in Contemporary Germany 15. The Great Supersession: Racialization and Replacement in US Evangelical Islamophobia PART IV THE GENDERED VIOLENCE OF REPLACEMENT 16. Fascism and the Violent Replacement of The People 17. “A Victory for White Life”: Reproduction, Replacement, and a Handmaid’s Tale 18. The King of Tars: A Medieval Rendition of Replacement Theories
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Taylor & Francis Marketing the Third Reich
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating volume, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketing, conceptualising the Reich as a product campaign. Building on his acclaimed Selling Hitler (2016), he uses marketing scholarship to show how propaganda and political marketing existed not merely as an instrument of government in Nazi Germany, but as the very medium of government itself.Marketing the Third Reich explores the insidious connection between a mass culture and a political movement, and how the cultures of consumption and politics influence and infect each other consumerised politics and politicised consumption. Ultimately its concern is with the engineering of consent' the troubling matter of how public opinion can be manufactured, and governments elected, via sophisticated methodologies of persuasion developed in the consumer economy. Nazism functioned as a brand, packaging almost everything with persTrade Review"Nicholas O’Shaughnessy has come up with an incisive and intriguing way of looking at the Third Reich through its fiendishly effective brand marketing. The methods of Joseph Goebbels’ sinister genius at PR is laid bare superbly, and this book is replete with fascinating and important lessons for the present day."Professor Andrew Roberts, Author, The Storm of War""Only first class business and that in a first class way " was a motto of David Ogilvy. But what if the product and clients were loathsome? Like a barrister's advocacy the power of brilliant marketing can serve a false and perverse master. Never has this been truer than in the case of the Third Reich. Nicholas O'Shaughnessy's extraordinary book shows how it set out to be a well-managed brand and previewed many of the techniques of modern marketing communications in a sedulously first class way." Miles Young, Non Executive Chairman, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide"This is an accomplished, rare, interdisciplinary text. It provides an historical overview of how one of the most heinous regimes in history used prototype marketing and propaganda to gain and retain power. It’s a must-read both for those who would wish to govern us and those who are governed alike." Professor Paul Baines, Cranfield University, UK "Professor O'Shaughnessy has found an innovative new way of examining the Third Reich, by looking closely at how it was sold and marketed."Giles MacDonogh, Writer and Historian"Nicholas O'Shaughnessy's elegant and detailed historical scholarship has previously drawn our attention to unsettling traces of brand marketing strategy behind the calamitous rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. In Marketing the Third Reich he emboldens his thesis to show that the Nazis were ineluctably masters of marketing. He challenges conventional wisdom in both political history and in marketing scholarship by arguing that both are swayed by the nebulous yet compelling techniques of mass persuasion. In our propagandistic era of tumultuous political populism, this penetrating work is alarmingly resonant." Professor Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway University of London, UKTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I Advocacy: The Nazi Brand and its Protagonists 1. Was there a Nazi brand? 2. The marketing managers of the Third Reich: A chaos theory of government Part II Operational: Implementing the Nazi Brand 3. Promotion: political marketing communication- The Ministry of Illusion 4. Product: Adolf Hitler, The Ersatz Kaiser 5. Packaging: The politics of consumption and the consumption of politics 6. Place: Political marketing channels, the entrepreneurship of the public space Part III Legacy: The Implications of the Nazi Brand 7. Hitler our contemporary: Brand heritage, the Reich as power brand 8. Was Adolf Hitler ahead of his time? A review of comparative self-presentation Epilogue: The Führer and the Donald: the ghost of a resemblance?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania 19271941
The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 19271941 engages critically with recent works on fascism, totalitarianism, and religion, and advances an original theoretical and methodological approach to fascism as a political faith. On this basis, the book constructs an innovative comparative research framework for reconceptualizing the history of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 19271941. It contends that the Legion put forward a palingenetic political faith of a theological type, called Legionarism. To provide a comprehensive analysis of the origins, main features, mechanisms of institutionalization, and demise of this self-proclaimed salvific political faith, the book documents the palingenetic foundations of the Legionary faith, the syncretism between fascist and Christian rites and rituals, and the intricate relationship between the Legion and the Orthodox Church and its dogma. The book documents three main sacrificial strategies employe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd France and Fascism
Book SynopsisFrance and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This French civil war', the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would come to an end only at the Liberation of France ten years later.The book challenges the assumption that the riots did not pose a serious threat to French democracy by providing a more balanced historical contextualisation of the events. Each chapter follows a distinctive analytical framework, incorporating the latest research in the field on French interwar politics as well as imporTrade Review‘Wide European perspectives, impressive scholarship, bold conclusions. This outstanding study meticulously reconstructs the context and dynamics of the Parisian riots, showing convincingly that France was not immune from the political violence of Fascism.’Rod Kedward, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Sussex, and author of La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900‘Brian Jenkins and Chris Millington’s book offers a highly original and engaging treatment of a hitherto neglected, yet vital chapter in French history, and should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of 1930s Gallic politics and society, the roots of the Vichy Regime, and indeed transnational trends across the European extreme Right during the interwar era.’Samuel Kalman, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.'This is an important book on an important subject. 6 February 1934 was in many ways the defining event of the turbulent decade of 1930s France, but no one has approached the subject with the scholarly rigour of Jenkins and Millington. The book is essential reading for all students of inter-war France.’William D. Irvine, Professor of History (Emeritus) , York University, Toronto'Jenkins and Millington provide us with a remarkable and authoritative account, by far the best to date, of the development and dynamics of this historic episode, which left an indelible mark on twentieth-century France. In the process, with rigour and precision, they refute traditional interpretations of these events. The lessons of this book probably apply well beyond this period of history.’Michel Dobry, Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne, Paris.'The 6 February riots were a turning-point in modern French history, yet they have been invoked far more than they have been studied. Confronting the myth-making of the 1930s and more recent interpretations of le six février head on, Brian Jenkins and Chris Millington set this pivotal event in a broader French and European context. This engaging and accessible work will fascinate scholars and students of modern European history and politics.'Sean Kennedy, Professor of History, University of New BrunswickTable of ContentsIntroduction: FALSE PERSPECTIVES, FALSE CONCLUSIONSTHE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SIX FÉVRIER 1934 1. WAR, REVOLUTION AND DEPRESSION. THE SIX FÉVRIER IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT 2. CRISIS AND CONSPIRACY: THE PREPARATION OF THE SIX FÉVRIER 3.JOURNÉE AND DÉNOUEMENT: THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL CRISIS 4. THE VETERANS AND THE PARIS RIOT 5. Aftermath: COnstructing the six février 6. CONCLUSION: Situating the Six février APPENDICES
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fascist in the Family
Book SynopsisJohn Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour''s youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley's fascists, and one of Britain's three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He successfully hid his Jewish ancestry all his life he said his mother's family were fisher folk from the east coast. His son, the author of this book, acclaimed political biographer and journalist Francis Beckett, did not discover the truth until John Beckett had been dead for years.He left Mosley and founded the National Socialist League with William Joyce, later Lord Haw Haw, and spent the war years in prison, considered a danger to the war effort.For the rest of his life, and all of Francis Beckett's childhood, John Beckett and his family were closely watched by the secuTrade Review"John Beckett was a political chameleon: first at one with the fist-clenching left, then in awe of the goose-stepping fascists. He was also a Walter Mitty so who really knows? This author does. Francis Beckett's personal partiality doesn't blunt his fine journalist's pen nor cloud his judgement and integrity; but the pain shines through. He writes with compelling candour about his father. It is as moving for the reader as it must have been painful for the author."Alastair Stewart OBE, ITV News"The youngest Labour MP in 1925, by 1940 John Beckett was in prison as a danger to the war effort. His son has written a courageously honest, moving and sensitive account of a socialist who ended up despising the workers, a Jew who ended up hating Jews, a democrat who became contemptuous of democracy. It is a penetrating analysis of the political times in which he lived, not least because it illuminates the conditions that can – if freedom is not strong, vigilant and purposeful - breed bigotry and fascism. It is a valuable history as well as an instructive biography."Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party 1983-1992"A fascinating insight into the unsavoury practices of the security services, and a moving portrait of a talented, wayward father who denied his Jewishness at great cost to himself and all around him."Paul Routledge, political biographer and commentator for the Mirror and Tribune magazine, UK"John Beckett was a Labour MP who later took up with fascism. In Fascist in the Family his son Francis, journalist, historian and playwright engages in the difficult task of tracing his father's tempestuous and ultimately unfulfilled life. His readable, well-researched, questioning and honest biography serves as a British equivalent of My Nazi Legacy."Colin Holmes, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Sheffield, UK"Part personal memoir, part historical reconstruction, Francis Beckett’s hugely readable book takes us into the murky worlds of right-wing extremism and the British secret state. As Beckett unravels his father’s disturbing history, and seeks to come to terms with it, he also reminds us of the conflicts of conscience, identity and family loyalty that so fervent a commitment to fascism inevitably produced."Kevin Morgan, Professor of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Manchester, UK"This is a gripping account of a singularly tragic political life.This can't have been an easy book to research or write. Thanks to Beckett's intellectual and emotional honesty, however, it offers a fascinating insight into the complex personal origins of the politics of hatred, as well as a timely reminder that some of our most dangerous public figures possess uncommon human appeal."Melissa Benn, The New Statesman"In an attempt to reconcile the two sides of John Beckett’s character, Francis, has raked though the embers of his father’s life, and in the process unearthed a remarkable tangle of contradictions. In many ways it’s a desperate story. Francis Beckett never excuses his father — he’s clearly appalled by what he did — but at the same time there is an unmistakable undercurrent of affection here." John Preston, Daily Mail"Francis Beckett has been an adornment of left journalism for 40 years. Now he has written this remarkable book about his father John Beckett.This is a beautifully written account of British fascism written from the inside – a fascist family story in every sense. Francis Beckett’s masterly biography of his fascist father should be read by all who want to know where the left can go wrong."Denis MacShane, Tribune Magazine"Fascist in the Family makes for fascinating reading at a time of economic and political uncertainty. Francis Beckett has provided a unique insight into what happens when a man, apparently devoted to the good of the common people, turns to racism and hatred to pursue his personal political vision."Martin Bright, The Jewish Chronicle"Francis Beckett has written a moving account of growing up under the shadow of fascism. He provides both hard academic analysis and a personal account of the pain and havoc caused by extremist politics."Jane Ridley, The Oldie"Francis Beckett weaves this story of family, fascism and failure with considerable skill. It must have been difficult for the author to confront the painful ‘sins of the father’ again but we should congratulate him for making that effort as this succeeds admirably as memoir, biography and political history. From a life doomed to failure and hate, he has created a lasting literary triumph."Leopold Trepper, Searchlight "Francis Beckett vividly charts how his father’s shortcomings, combined with the twists and turns of the interwar left, led him towards fascism."Daniel Trilling, The Guardian"Francis Beckett’s poignant and compelling biography is the story of a family, as well as a political history. It’s rich in detail, from the glimpses of appalling social norms to the strange mix of personalities who fetched up in the casserole of public life."Mary Kenny, The Literary Review"This fascinating book gives us a moving account of his father’s decline. This, and the keenly researched and scrupulously impartial examination of his father’s earlier career, makes this a very important contribution to our understanding of the complexity of some of the forces that brought people to choose fascism as their creed."Professor Richard Griffiths, Patterns of Prejudice"The sheer scale of the research and personal interviews he has carried out suggests a momentous cathartic process and the subject matter belies the pleasure of reading it."John Haylett, The Morning Star"In his extraordinary book, Fascist in the Family, Francis Beckett, acclaimed journalist and contemporary historian, chronicles how his late father, John, went from being a popular Labour MP to becoming propaganda chief for fascist leader Oswald Mosley. The events took place more than 70 years ago but the issues of racism, nationalism and anti-semitism have strong resonances today."Peter Gruner, Camden New Journal"Beckett's account of his father's embrace of anti-Semitic pro Nazi politics is as absorbing as it is salutary in its explanations of the transformation of radical socialist to racist national socialist."Mike Davis, The Chartist"Sharp-shooting radical journalist and writer Francis Beckett…has followed the paper trail with consummate energy and the detail of political life, especially in the inter-wars years, is absorbing. This is a most readable study and a painful one too as one begins to gauge the effect of John Beckett’s chequered career on his family."Eric Midwinter, Third Age MattersAs featured in The Guardian, on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme and on BBC World Service.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Eva Solomon and the Yeomen of Cheshire2. The Legacy of War3. Major Attlee and Corporal Beckett4. The Theatre and the General Election5. Labour's Youngest MP6. The 1926 General Strike7. A Complicated Life8. The Death of Hope9. Playing to the Gallery10. 193111. Dying on Stage12. A Life in Ruins13. Anne14. The Streetfighter15. Following the Bleeder16. Jew-Baiting and Standing by the King17. The National Socialist League18. The Anti-War Faction19. Prison20. Mr Morrison’s Prisoner21. A Birth and A Hanging22. Indian Summer23. The Catholic Church and the Soul of the Far Right24. A Family in Freefall25. Struts and Frets His Hour Upon The Stage, and then is Heard No More26. Legacy of a Jewish Anti Semite
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Cambridge University Press The Social Bases of Nazism 19191933 48 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press The Vatican and Italian Fascism 1929 32
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relations between the Vatican and the Fascist regime in Italy during the period 19291932. The author sets out what he believes to be the long-term consequences of the 1931 crisis, and in so doing challenges a number of previously accepted interpretations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The advent of the conciliazione; 3. Reactions to the conciliazione and the ratification of the pacts; 4. The diplomatic dimension: Italian foreign policy and the Vatican, 1929–31; 5. The Catholic offensive: Catholic action and the regime, 1929–31; 6. The crisis of 1931; 7. Conclusion and epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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