Rethinking the Nature of Fascism

1. Introduction: Fascism and the Other ‘-isms’
António Costa Pinto

Part I. Fascism and the Social Sciences

2. Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism
Stein U. Larsen

3. Desperately Seeking ‘Generic Fascism’: Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories
Michel Dobry

4. Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative (or how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel)
Roger Griffin

Part II. New Approaches

5. Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women’s and Gender History
Kevin Passmore

6. Fascism and Religion
John Pollard

7. Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism
Roger Eatwell

8. Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe
Giulia Albanese

9. Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives
António Costa Pinto

10. Fascism, ‘Licence’ and Genocide: From the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder
Aristotle Kallis

11. Concluding Remarks
Adrian Lyttelton

Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Historiography and Method, Cultural History, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism, European History