The March on Rome: Violence and the Rise of Italian Fascism

by Giulia Albanese

Book Overview

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the country's history and the beginning of the Fascist dictatorship. This aspect of the March has long been obscured: first by the Fascists' celebratory project, and then by the ironic and reductive interpretation of the event put forward by anti-Fascists.

This volume focuses on the role and purpose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138069736
• ISBN13: 9781138069732
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"