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This book provides a complete history of the Conservative party from 1935 to 1940 and explores its responses to the problems of fascism.

"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contributions such a hero might make to debates on national identity today."--Provided by publisher.

"First published as L'Italia e il confine orientale Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007"--Title page verso.

This volume examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the facist period and will be of interest to historians, political scientists and scholars concerned with the development of facism.

This title casts fresh light on the crisis that beset Nazism during the final months of Germany's first republic. The book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records.

Explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its cities after World War I. This book focuses on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities' perceived and actual power.

This study analyzes the disarmament policy of successive British governments from 1919 to 1934, concluding that the policy-makers' strategy was to avoid their international obligations for as long as possible.

Explores the history of the Third Reich. This book relates the struggle between Party loyalists and diplomats in the Foreign Office. It reveals the effort by some Nazi Party leaders to realize the original intent to make Germany and the Party into one functioning unit dominated by National Socialist philosophy.

Exploring theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, this book analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their nation state and the monarchy, class conflicts, and the emergence of various belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.

This book concerns the persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany during the Second Empire (1871-1918) and Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and traces the ways in which discriminatory treatment towards 'Gypsies' developed in a state ostensibly committed to individual liberty and equal treatment under the law.

This volume examines how ideas of the nation influenced ordinary people by focusing on their affective lives. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain during the age of Revolutions to post-WWII Poland, it demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.

This monograph focuses on the challenges which interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War I, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities.