" An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of
World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western …

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative
discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in …

Sally Marks provides a compelling analysis of European diplomacy between the First World
War and Hitler's advent. She explores in clear and lively prose the reasons why successive …

In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and
artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid …

Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the
media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism …

Between the late 1880s and the onset of the Second World War, anti-slavery activism
experienced a revival in Europe. Anti-slavery organizations in Britain, Italy, France, and …

The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right is an engaging and accessible
guide to the origins of fascism, the main facets of the ideology and the reality of fascist …

Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 surveys the phenomenon which is still the object of interest
and debate over fifty years after its defeat in the Second World War. It introduces the recent …

The history of Catholic political movements has long been a missing dimension of the history
of Europe during the twentieth century. Martin Conway explores the fascinating history of …

With Italy under Napoleonic rule at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the antiquarian
topic of anti-romanism became a pillar of the Italian nation-building process and, in turn, was …