Fascist Europe

Monica Fioravanzo is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at University of Padua, specializing in Fascism and Italian German relations in the 1930s, and she is also a visiting scholar at FU Berlin, IFZ Munich and Columbia University.

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Introduction



Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Concept of Europe





A Cautious and Circuitous Start

The 1930s: the Prospect of a Fascist Europe

The Volta Conference on Europe

Orestano’s Summary and the Reaction of the Foreign Press



Chapter 2. The Utopia of a Fascist Europe (1932–35)





Gerarchia and the Fascistization of Europe

The Myth of Rome

A Plan for Europe: History, Demographics and Politics

Italy, France and Germany



Chapter 3. From the African Dream to an Axis Europe





Africa in a Fascist Europe

ISPI and the Development of Eurafrica

The Path Towards an Axis Europe

A Fascist Europe or an Axis Europe?

An Axis Europe or a Nazi Europe?

The Axis as Seen by the Two Peoples’



Chapter 4. Towards a Nazi-Fascist Order? War as Opportunity





Europe in the ‘War Magazines’

The Mediterranean, Eurafrica and Eurafroasia

A Time for Reflection

Youth in the New Europe Europe, Kultur and ‘Greater Germanic’ Ideology

Spiritual Dominance in the New Europe

To Win the War or ‘Win Peace’?

The Decline of the Axis and a ‘Europe of the Nations’



Postface



Bibliography

Index