Transatlantic Antifascisms - From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II

The first comprehensive scholarly account of antifascism, analysing its development in Spain, France, Britain and the USA.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Revolutionary antifascism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39; 3. The antifascist deficit during the French Popular Front; 4. British and French counterrevolutionary antifascism; 5. Counterrevolutionary antifascism alone, 1939-40; 6. American counterrevolutionary antifascism; 7. Antifascisms united: 1941-44; 8. Beyond fascism and antifascism: working and not working; 9. Antifascisms divided, 1945; 10. Conclusion and epilogue.

About the author

Michael Seidman teaches at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, having studied at the University of Amsterdam, University of California, Berkeley and Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. His first book, Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts, 1936–38 (1991) has been translated into six languages. Other publications include Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War (2002, Spanish translation, 2003); The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (2004); and The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (2011, Spanish translation, 2012).

Summary

Antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century and yet no historian or social scientist has previously defined its nature and history. Michael Seidman fills this gap by analysing antifascisms in Spain, France, the UK, and USA from the Spanish Civil War to World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Seidman, Michael (University of North Carolina Seidman, Seidman Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108405867
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40586-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, France, European History, Spain, Political Ideologies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, General and world history, History of the Americas, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General