{"product_id":"mussolinis-italy-isbn-9780143038566","title":"Mussolini's Italy","description":"With \u003ci\u003eMussolini ’s Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy’s darkest hour.Mussolini's Italy\u003ci\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eList of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNote on further reading\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. One Italy or another before 1914\u003cbr\u003e2. Liberal and dynastic war\u003cbr\u003e3. Popular and national war\u003cbr\u003e4. 1919\u003cbr\u003e5. Becoming a Fascist\u003cbr\u003e6. Learning to rule in the provinces\u003cbr\u003e7. Learning to rule from Rome\u003cbr\u003e8. Building a totalitarian dictatorship\u003cbr\u003e9. Forging Fascist society\u003cbr\u003e10. Placing Italy in Europe\u003cbr\u003e11. Going to the people\u003cbr\u003e12. Dictating full-time\u003cbr\u003e13. Becoming imperialists\u003cbr\u003e14. Embracing Nazi Germany\u003cbr\u003e15. Lurching into war\u003cbr\u003e16. The wages of Fascist war\u003cbr\u003e17. Losing all the wars\u003cbr\u003e18. The Fascist heritage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this insightful, comprehensive study, Bosworth secures his place as one of the two leading historians in the English-speaking world . . . of twentieth-century Italy. (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred and boxed review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful work of scholarship, beautifully written, which should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Europe. (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cb\u003eR. J. B. Bosworth \u003c\/b\u003eis an Australian historian and author and a recognized expert on Fascist Italy. He taught history at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia, and was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. A fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Bosworth is the author of \u003ci\u003eMussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915–1945\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Fascism\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303171576037,"sku":"NP9780143038566","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143038566.jpg?v=1767733199","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mussolinis-italy-isbn-9780143038566","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}