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| Acknowledgement | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Map of Modern Italy | |
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| Introduction: Locating Fascism | |
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| The Conquest of Power, 1915-29 | |
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| The War, the Post-war Crisis and the Rise of Fascism, 1915-22 | |
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| Politics and society in post-unification Italy | |
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| The war in Italy | |
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| '1919-ism' and early Fascism | |
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| The 1919 elections | |
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| The biennio rosso and Fiume | |
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| The Fascist reaction | |
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| Giolitti and Fascism | |
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| The transition from movement to party | |
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| The March on Rome | |
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| Between 'Normalisation' and 'Revolution', 1922-25 | |
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| The various Fascisms | |
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| Dictatorship by stealth | |
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| The conquest of the South and the 1924 election | |
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| The Matteotti crisis | |
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| The Construction of the 'Totalitarian' State, 1925-29 | |
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| 'Totalitarianism' | |
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| The party and the state | |
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| Syndicates and corporations | |
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| The Fascist constitution | |
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| The conciliation with the Catholic church | |
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| The revaluation of the lira | |
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| 'Ruralism' and population policy | |
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| The Fascist Regime, 1929-36 | |
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| The Years of the Great Depression, 1929-34 | |
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| The party and the inquadramento of the nation | |
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| The organisation of the young, welfare and free time | |
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| The organisation of culture | |
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| The impact and limitations of 'totalitarian' control | |
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| Corporativism and the Great Depression | |
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| The Creation of the Fascist Empire, 1935-36 | |
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| Imperialism, revisionism and the limits to Fascist foreign policy in the 1920s | |
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| The 'totalitarian' state: internal policy as foreign policy and vice versa | |
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| The Depression and Fascism's opportunity | |
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| The invasion and conquest of Ethiopia | |
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| Fascist Expansionism at Home and Abroad, 1936-43 | |
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| The Axis Connection and the 'Fascistisation' of Italian Society, 1936-40 | |
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| The Axis with Germany | |
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| Making something of the empire | |
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| Forcing the pace of 'fascistisation' | |
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| Autarky and economic preparation for war | |
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| 'Non-belligerency' and war, 1939-40 | |
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| Fascist Italy at War, 1940-43 | |
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| The collapse of Italy's parallel war | |
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| The impact of war and the internal crisis of the regime | |
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| The fall of Mussolini | |
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| The Italian Social Republic, 1943-45 | |
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| The German occupation of Italy and Mussolini's return | |
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| 'A return to the origins'? | |
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| The Italian civil war | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |