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020 _a9781107198425
035 _a(OCoLC)992796331
040 _aCO-BoUCM
_bspa
_cSandra Palacio
_dSandra Palacio
100 1 _aAlcalde, Ángel
_992040
245 1 0 _aWar veterans and fascism in interwar Europe
_cÁngel Alcalde, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
260 3 _aCambridge, United Kingdom
_bCambridge University Press
_c2017
263 _a1712
300 _axiii, 314 páginas
490 0 _aStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
520 _aPart I. Fascism and veterans after the Great War -- The Great War veterans and the origins of Fascism, 1914-1919 -- War veterans and the rise of Italian Fascism, 1920-1922 -- Part II. Fascism and veterans during the 1920s -- Veterans under fascist rule, 1923-1925 -- Veterans and fascism : consolidation and European expansion, 1925-1929 -- Part III. Fascism and veterans during the 1930s -- Transnational fascism and veterans, 1929-1935 -- Veterans between fascism and anti-fascism, war and peace, 1936-1940
520 _a"This book analyses the transnational relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. For decades, historians have strived to explain why the European continent, only twenty years after a cataclysmic war of unprecedented murderous dimensions, became involved in a new, even more horrendous, world conflict. Although there were important democratic experiences and remarkable advances in many facets of human life, the interwar period saw the progressive demolition of the peaceful order for which many people had hoped in the wake of the Great War. While at the beginning of 1919 democracies clearly dominated Europe, by June 1940 they were the exception to the rule. This eclipse of democracy, marked by violent conflicts and civil wars, cannot be understood without placing fascism at its centre. Fascism was a product of the First World War experience, and fascism can also be considered to have triggered the Second World War. In this scenario, explaining the links between fascism and war veterans, the men who were also a direct legacy of the Great War, remains crucial"--Introduction
611 2 7 _aGuerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
_983980
648 7 _aHistoria 1900-2000
_992041
650 2 7 _aFascismo
_zEuropa
_xHistoria
_ySiglo XX
_915595
650 2 7 _aVeteranos
_xActividad política
_zEuropa
_xHistoria
_ySiglo XX
_992042
650 2 7 _aPolítica y gobierno
_922032
650 2 7 _aCondiciones sociales
_911501
651 0 _aEuropa
_xCondiciones sociales
_ySiglo XX
_992043
651 0 _aEuropa
_xPolítica y gobierno
_y1918-1945
_992044
942 _2DEWEY
_cLIBRO
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