Mussolini by Bosworth, R. J. B.
Mussolini by Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini

Mussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II,...
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Author: R. J. B. Bosworth
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Language: English
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Mussolini by Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini

$124.38
Mussolini by Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini

$124.38
Author: R. J. B. Bosworth
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Mussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can't properly understand him or his regime by any facile equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike them, he maintained a traditional male family life, including both a wife and mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was cruel (though not the cruelest); his racism existed, but never with the consistency and vigor that would have made him a good recruit for the SS. He sought an empire, but, for the most part, his was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth-century variety, not of a racial or ideological imperialism. And Italy was not Germany or Russia: the particular patterns of that society greatly shaped his dictatorship.

R. J. B. Bosworth's Mussolini allows us to come closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions of the man and of the political world and society within which he operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a human being shaped by and living within the context of this time.

Author: R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 05/25/2010
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780340981733


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 30

About the Author

Richard Bosworth is one of the world's leading authorities on modern Italian history. He has been a Visiting Fellow at a number of institutions, including the Italian Academy at Columbia University, St. Johns and Clare Hall (Cambridge), Balliol and All Souls Colleges (Oxford), the Humanities Research Centre (Canberra) and the University of Trento in Italy. He currently shares his Professorship of History between the University of Western Australia and Reading University in the UK. Since the initial publication of his biography of Mussolini, he has written Mussolini's Italy: life under the dictatorship (Penguin, 2006), and a short polemic, Nationalism (Pearson, 2007). In 2009 he edited for Oxford University Press the Oxford handbook of fascism.


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