The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy - Outside the State?

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime's incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians - midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers - over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Origins.- 3. Masculinity.- 4. Coercion.- 5. Reproduction
6. Consumption.- 7. Borderlands.- 8. Empire.- 9. Memory.- 10. Conclusion - Troubling Coercion and Consent: Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism

About the author

Joshua Arthurs is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA.

Summary

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joshua Arthurs (Editor), Michae Ebner (Editor), Michael Ebner (Editor), Kate Ferris (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781137594181
• ISBN: 978-1-137-59418-1
• No. of pages: 265
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 219 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 455 g
• Illustrations: XII, 265 p.
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies; Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Zweiter Weltkrieg, Geschichte, Italien, B, Medienwissenschaften, History, Media Studies, History: specific events & topics, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, Communication, Political science & theory, Second World War, auseinandersetzen, Political History, Media and Communication, World Politics, History, Modern, Modern History, History of Italy, Italy—History, Media and Communication Theory, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie