The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe keyword-interdisciplinarity In this now classic study

In this now classic study

But it is also an exercise in the wider history of ideas

Ranging over questions of social theory

scathing critical pen

Ginsborg also finds international tendencies

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe keyword-interdisciplinarity In this now classic studyDrawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies. In making this argument the book focuses on three crucial cases of interwar authoritarianism: Italy, Spain and