Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Book Overview

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that--at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242165
• ISBN13: 9780520242166
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"