Cyprian P. Blamires – World Fascism. A Historical Encyclopedia

Автор: Cyprian P. Blamires
Название книги: World Fascism. A Historical Encyclopedia
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Прочая историческая литература
Страницы: 945
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This book shows how, during the 20th century, evils such as totalitarianism, tyranny, war, and genocide became indelibly linked to the fascist cause, and examines the enduring and popular appeal of an ideology that has counted princes, poets, and war heroes among its most fervent adherents.

• 500 A–Z entries on fascist leaders and the movements, doctrines, and key events associated with fascism

• An extensive index that enables readers to locate topics quickly and easily

• Information about fascism as a worldwide movement from a wide range of sources

• Contributions from over 100 scholars from more than 20 nations

This work of reference fills a significant void in the field
of modern historical/political studies. There are existing
individual encyclopaedic dictionaries dedicated respectively
to the Third Reich and to interwar Italian
Fascism as well as smaller reference works taking a
global approach to far-right movements (and I have
found all of these most useful as a reference resource for
the editorial work); but there is to date no substantial
English-language encyclopedia giving in-depth global
coverage on this scale to the modern phenomenon of
fascism from its first stirrings in the nineteenth century
up to the beginning of the new millennium. The present
work gives comprehensive coverage to movements,
ideologies, ideologues, and events generally associated
with fascism across the globe. Our aim is to give coverage
firstly to those openly identifying themselves as ‘fascists’
(e.g., Mussolini, Mosley), secondly to some at
least of those who have been associated—often wrongly
in our view—with the idea of fascism in the public
mind (e.g., General Pinochet of Chile), and thirdly, to
some whose ideologies seem to have certain affinities to
fascism (e.g., General Qadhafi of Libya).
The person who spotted this gap in our resources
and decided to do something about it was Robert
Neville, a former ABC-CLIO editor based in the Oxford
office in the UK, so many thanks are due to him.
Without the interest and the enthusiastic backing of
Professor Roger Griffin of Oxford Brookes University
in the UK our project would not have got off the
ground, and he can certainly be regarded as the midwife
of this particular baby. As the project developed he
proved to be an unfailing source of information, contacts,
advice, and general wisdom as well as being a major
contributor to the content, and in my capacity as
editor I owe him an inestimable debt. Alongside him
the Advisory Board has also provided invaluable support
and encouragement. I would in addition like to
express my thanks to all the one hundred and twentyplus
contributors from all over the globe who have
worked unsparingly to make the Encyclopedia a success.
They are based at universities in twenty-four different
countries, and the range of nationalities they represent
is even wider. One of the greatest pleasures for me in
the preparation of this Encyclopedia has been the emailing
relationships the work has led me to establish with
so many scholars all over the world. In addition I
should say a word of thanks to my son Robert who was
kind enough to devote some time to studying the text
and commenting on it at a formative moment in its development
and to David O’Donoghue, who inspired
the addition of an important entry to our original list. I
must thank my wife Trudi too for her stoic endurance
of the the intrusions of this project into our family life.
Finally, a particular accolade to Paul Jackson, not simply
for his various weighty articles, but also for having
read the whole text through at a crucial stage and offered
his wisdom about it; in addition, I am grateful to
him for undertaking to compose the chronology and
general bibliography and to add many bibliographical
items to a number of entries