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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2014
      31 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511778728
      9780521762137
      9781107617742
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778728
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 306 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
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    Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy analyses this system of political confinement and, more broadly, its effects on Italian society, revealing the centrality of political violence to Fascist rule. In doing so, the book shatters the widely accepted view that the Mussolini regime ruled without a system of mass repression. The Fascist state ruled Italy violently, projecting its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination and other quotidian forms of coercion. Moreover, by promoting denunciatory practices, the regime cemented the loyalties of 'upstanding' citizens while suppressing opponents, dissenters and social outsiders. Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2011 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association

    Reviews

    ‘Michael Ebner’s excellent study of the Mussolini era gives a convincing account, based on much original research in the archives, of how the dictator and his followers deployed systematic violence over a period of more than 20 years.’

    Source: Financial Times

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