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This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a wide political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond Fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', encompassing both Southern Europe and Latin America.
List of contents
1 Hybridizing Ideas within the ‘Latin space’: Transnational Agents and Polycentric Cross-Border Networks Part 1. Transnational Agents 2 António Sardinha and his Ibero-American Connections. Traditionalism and Universalism 3 Ramiro de Maetzu between Argentine and Spanish Nationalisms 4 Pietro Maria Bardi’s First Journey to South America. A Narrative of Travel, Politics and Architectural Utopia 5 Plínio Salgado between Brazil and Portugal. Formation and Transformation of Brazilian Integralism Part 2. Intellectual networks 6 The Association de la Presse Latine. Efforts and Failure of a Right-Wing pan-Latinist Project 7 Les amis étrangers. Maurrassian Circles and a French Perspective on the Latin space during the Thirties 8 Atlantic Crossings. Intellectual-Politicians and the Diffusion of Corporatism in the Thirties Latin America 9 Local and Global Connexions of Argentine, Uruguayian and Chilean Fascists in the Thirties and Early Forties
About the author
Valeria Galimi is tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Florence, Italy. She has been a visiting scholar and professor in France, Israel and the United States. Her interests are on the history of French intellectuals during the interwar period, the history of European anti-Semitism, fascism and the Second World War.
Annarita Gori is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her work focuses on right-wing intellectual networks in the interwar period, cultural propaganda and pan-Latinism. She was visiting scholar at New York University (2015) and Science Po (2016). During Spring 2020, she will be a visiting professor at Brown University.
Summary
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a wide political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond Fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the ‘Latin space’, encompassing both Southern Europe and Latin America.
