Rethinking the Nature of Fascism

GIULIA ALBANESE Research Fellow, the University of Padova, Italy MICHEL DOBRY Professor of Political Science, the Sorbonne (Universite Paris I), France ROGER EATWELL Professor of European Politics, the University of Bath, UK ROGER GRIFFIN Professor of Modern History, Oxford Brookes University, UK ARISTOTLE KALLIS Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Lancaster University, UK STEIN U. LARSEN Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics, the University of Bergen, Norway ADRIAN LYTTELTON Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Centre, Italy KEVIN PASSMORE Lecturer in History, University of Cardiff, UK STANLEY G. PAYNE Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA JOHN POLLARD Fellow in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.