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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 December 2009
      26 June 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582103
      9780521580182
      9780521894265
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582103
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 352 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.635kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    The Croix de Feu and its successor the Parti Social Français stood at the centre of political conflict in the turbulent final years of the French Third Republic. Membership peaked at 750,000 in 1937, and at the time the movement was widely regarded as the counterpart of fascism in Germany and Italy. However, only recently has the view that fascism also has roots in France become a serious topic for debate. From Liberalism to Fascism is based largely on archival research, and shows that contemporary perceptions of the Croix de Feu and the PSF as fascist were in fact correct. Dr Passmore places French fascism in the wider context of the history of French conservatism through a micro-study of a crisis of the liberal-conservative tradition in Lyon. This 1997 book was the first to place the emergence of French fascism in the wider political and social context. In the process, received views of the nature of French society and politics are contested.

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    ‘Leaving behind the vacuous rhetoric of fascist intellectuals and Parisian elites, Passmore provides us with what we most need: a study of the provincial dynamics of the right … the real strength of this important book is that Passmore enables us to confront the French provincial right of the inter-war years in all of its messy diversity.’

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