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War veterans and fascism in...
"This book analyses the transnational relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. For decades, historians have strived to explain why the European continent, only twenty years after a cataclysmic war of unprecedented murderous dimensions, became involved in a new, even more horrendous, world conflict. Although there were important democratic experiences and remarkable advances in many facets of human life, the interwar period saw the progressive demolition of the peaceful order for which many people had hoped in the wake of the Great War. While at the beginning of 1919 democracies clearly dominated Europe, by June 1940 they were the exception to the rule. This eclipse of democracy, marked by violent conflicts and civil wars, cannot be understood without placing fascism at its centre. Fascism was a product of the First World War experience, and fascism can also be considered to have triggered the Second World War. In this scenario, explaining the links between fascism and war veterans, the men who were also a direct legacy of the Great War, remains crucial"--Introduction
"This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that 'brutalization' (George L. Mosse) led veterans to join fascist movements and those who stress that most ex-soldiers of the Great War became committed pacifists and internationalists. Transcending the debates of the brutalization thesis and drawing upon a wide range of archival and published sources, this work focuses on the interrelated processes of transnationalization and the fascist permeation of veterans' politics in interwar Europe to offer a wider perspective on the history of both fascism and veterans' movements. A combination of mythical constructs, transfers, political communication, encounters and networks within a transnational space explain the relationship between veterans and fascism. Thus, this book offers new insights into the essential ties between fascism and war, and contributes to the theorization of transnational fascism."--Publisher's description
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monografia Rebiun24409856 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun24409856 m |o d | cr |n||||||||| 190912t20172017enka ob 001 0 eng d 9781108182423 1108182429 9781107198425 1107198429 NhCcYBP eng NhCcYBP UNAV 320.53/309409042 23 Alcalde, Ángel autor War veterans and fascism in interwar Europe Ángel Alcalde, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2017 Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 1 recurso electrónico 1 recurso electrónico Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia. online resource cr rdacarrier. CUP ebooks Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Part I. Fascism and veterans after the Great War -- Great War veterans and the origins of Fascism, 1914-1919 -- War veterans and the rise of Italian Fascism, 1920-1922 -- Part II. Fascism and veterans during the 1920s -- Veterans under fascist rule, 1923-1925 -- Veterans and fascism : consolidation and European expansion, 1925-1929 -- Part III. Fascism and veterans during the 1930s -- Transnational fascism and veterans, 1929-1935 -- Veterans between fascism and anti-fascism, war and peace, 1936-1940 "This book analyses the transnational relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. For decades, historians have strived to explain why the European continent, only twenty years after a cataclysmic war of unprecedented murderous dimensions, became involved in a new, even more horrendous, world conflict. Although there were important democratic experiences and remarkable advances in many facets of human life, the interwar period saw the progressive demolition of the peaceful order for which many people had hoped in the wake of the Great War. While at the beginning of 1919 democracies clearly dominated Europe, by June 1940 they were the exception to the rule. This eclipse of democracy, marked by violent conflicts and civil wars, cannot be understood without placing fascism at its centre. Fascism was a product of the First World War experience, and fascism can also be considered to have triggered the Second World War. In this scenario, explaining the links between fascism and war veterans, the men who were also a direct legacy of the Great War, remains crucial"--Introduction "This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that 'brutalization' (George L. Mosse) led veterans to join fascist movements and those who stress that most ex-soldiers of the Great War became committed pacifists and internationalists. Transcending the debates of the brutalization thesis and drawing upon a wide range of archival and published sources, this work focuses on the interrelated processes of transnationalization and the fascist permeation of veterans' politics in interwar Europe to offer a wider perspective on the history of both fascism and veterans' movements. A combination of mythical constructs, transfers, political communication, encounters and networks within a transnational space explain the relationship between veterans and fascism. Thus, this book offers new insights into the essential ties between fascism and war, and contributes to the theorization of transnational fascism."--Publisher's description Forma de acceso: World Wide Web