The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism

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• The Struggle for Modernity i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Foreword vii
• Foreword ix
• Introduction - Italian Nationalism and Modernity 1
• Chapter 1 - The Struggle for Modernity: Echoes of the Dreyfus Affair in Italian Political Culture, 1898–1912 11
• Chapter 2 - Conflicting Modernisms: La Voce Against Futurism 27
• Chapter 3 - The Conquest of Modernity: from Modernist Nationalism to Fascism 41
• Chapter 4 - Myth and Organization: the Rationale of Fascist Mass Politics 77
• Chapter 5 - The Problem of the Party in Italian Fascism 89
• Chapter 6 - The Theatre of Politics in Fascist Italy 109
• Chapter 7 - Mussolini S Charisma 127
• Chapter 8 - I Fasci Italiani Alpestero: the “foreign Policy” of the Fascist Party1 145
• Chapter 9 - Impending Modernity: Fascism and the Ambivalent Image of the United States 161
• Conclusion - The End of a Myth 181

• The Struggle for Modernity i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Foreword vii
• Foreword ix
• Introduction - Italian Nationalism and Modernity 1
• Chapter 1 - The Struggle for Modernity: Echoes of the Dreyfus Affair in Italian Political Culture, 1898–1912 11
• Chapter 2 - Conflicting Modernisms: La Voce Against Futurism 27
• Chapter 3 - The Conquest of Modernity: from Modernist Nationalism to Fascism 41
• Chapter 4 - Myth and Organization: the Rationale of Fascist Mass Politics 77
• Chapter 5 - The Problem of the Party in Italian Fascism 89
• Chapter 6 - The Theatre of Politics in Fascist Italy 109
• Chapter 7 - Mussolini S Charisma 127
• Chapter 8 - I Fasci Italiani Alpestero: the “foreign Policy” of the Fascist Party1 145
• Chapter 9 - Impending Modernity: Fascism and the Ambivalent Image of the United States 161
• Conclusion - The End of a Myth 181
• Index 189
• About the Author 203