War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe

Informationen zum Autor Ángel Alcalde is currently a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. He earned his Ph.D. in history and civilization from the European University Institute, Florence. He is a specialist on the social and cultural history of war, transnational history and the history of fascism. He has published numerous works on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, including two books, Los excombatientes franquistas (2014) and Lazos de Sangre (2010). Klappentext A fresh and suggestive interpretation of the relationship between veterans of the Great War and fascism in interwar Europe. Zusammenfassung Were the Great War veterans, millions of men with war experience, including Hitler and Mussolini themselves, a crucial factor in the rise of fascism in interwar Europe? Many historians have debated this fascinating question, but Ángel Alcalde now offers a new and highly illuminating explanation from an innovative transnational perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Fascism and Veterans after the Great War: 1. The Great War veterans and the origins of fascism, 1914-1919; 2. War veterans and the rise of Italian Fascism, 1920-2; Part II. Fascism and Veterans during the 1920s: 3. Veterans under fascist rule, 1923-5; 4. Veterans and fascism: consolidation and European expansion, 1925-9; Part III. Fascism and Veterans during the 1930s: 5. Transnational fascism and veterans, 1929-35; 6. Veterans between fascism and anti-fascism, war and peace, 1936-40; Conclusion.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Angel Alcalde, Ángel Alcalde, Angel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mun Alcalde, Angel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Alcalde
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107198425
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19842-5
• Pages: 326
• Thèmes: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > 20e siècle (jusqu'en 1945); Europe, France, European History, English, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)