The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe keyword-interdisciplinarity from the retributive fantasies of

from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers

scathing critical pen

narrative ecosystems

Ginsborg also finds international tendencies

Ranging over questions of social theory

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe keyword-interdisciplinarity from the retributive fantasies ofDrawing 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