Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism - Michael Ortiz

Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-33492-2 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
What is fascism? Is it an anomaly in the history of modern Europe? Or its culmination?

In Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism, Michael Ortiz makes the case that fascism should be understood, in part, as an imperial phenomenon. He contends that the Age of Appeasement (1935-1939) was not a titanic clash between rival socio-political systems (fascism and democracy), but rather an imperial contest between satisfied and unsatisfied empires.

Historians have long debated the extent to which Western imperialisms served as ideological and intellectual precursors to European fascisms. To date, this scholarship has largely employed an “inside-out” methodology that examines the imperial discourses that pushed fascist regimes outward, into Africa, Asia, and the Americas. While effective, such approaches tend to ignore the ways in which these places and their inhabitants understood European fascisms.

Addressing this imbalance, Anti-Colonialism adopts an “outside-in” approach that analyses fascist expansion from the perspective of Indian anti-colonialists such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Bose, and Mohandas Gandhi. Seen from India, the crises of Interwar fascism—the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Munich Agreement, and the outbreak of the Second World War—were yet another eruption of imperial expansion analogous (although not identical) to the Scramble for Africa and the Treaty of Versailles.

Whether fascist, democratic, or imperialist, Europe’s great powers collectively negotiated the fate of smaller nations.

Michael Ortiz is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Fascism and Imperialism
1. “It Is Us Today. It Will Be You Tomorrow”: India and the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
2. “All the Best Matadors Were Fascists”: India and the Spanish Civil War
3. “A Tower of Skulls”: India and the Second Sino-Japanese War
4 “A Triumph of Violence”: India and the Munich Agreement
5 “A War for the Future of the World”: India and the Outbreak of the Second World War
Conclusion: “Before They Were Its Victims, They Were Its Accomplices”

Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-350-33492-8 / 1350334928
ISBN-13 978-1-350-33492-2 / 9781350334922
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