The rise of political martyrdom in the contemporary world is not a new phenomenon but can be traced back to at least the early Twentieth Century with the rise of European Fascist movements. Both they, and the fascist-like movements of today, share a cluster of characteristics th…
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This dissertation examines the role of the literary in the contradictory political experiences of three authors. I argue that Albert Camus, Ignazio Silone, and Manès Sperber create a literary language that speaks about a type of political abuse and betrayal that the ideologies o…
All of the black images which I examine can best be explained in terms of their relationship to Italians' perception of their personal power or their power on a national level, for example I critique the use of Africa and Africans in Fascist films, especially with regard to the …
The scope of this dissertation is to examine the representations of Egypt in modern Italian literature. By closely analyzing Egyptian, Italian and French texts related to the colonial moment and the Italian intellectual environment during fascism I revise current views of coloni…
This thesis is the first investigation of the Luce Institute's (LUCE) newsreels, which were filmed throughout Europe during Benito Mussolini's dictatorship. The project focuses on analysing all LUCE's productions in four European countries in specific periods of time (Greece 193…
The thesis is comprised of four parts. The first, consisting of two chapters, challenges some generally accepted views about the 1930's as a whole and emphasises the change in political consciousness that occurred in the minds of ordinary people. The ideology of the B. U. F. is …
This thesis has been an attempt to isolate the contribution that was made to the fascist movements of Sir Oswald Mosley by Alexander Raven Thomson. Despite featuring in most studies of Mosley's fascist enterprises, until this study little was known of his life and thus the prope…
This thesis provides an examination of the emergence and development of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the Midlands between 1932 and 1940. It charts the fascist presence in four major cities: Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Leicester. The BUF is the la…
Chapter one addresses a primary source of Hitler's iconic image, Leni Riefenstahl, who established not only Hitler's cinematic image but also how he was visualized in the popular imagination. I place The Blue Light (1932), the film that inspired Hitler's admiration, in dialogue …
My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes--the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies--and Levantines--white Italian immigrant merchants and …
This study explores the Italian project of nation-building in South Tyrol and Libya under Fascism. Settlers from across the peninsula were entrusted with the task of transforming these "foreign" borderlands into model Fascist homelands. Libya, an African colony, was renamed Ital…
Benito Mussolini constantly portrayed his regime as a protector of nationalism and the ultimate promoter in the re-discovery of Italian culture. The 1930s represent the highest involvement of the regime in cultural activities. Such events had the specific propagandistic goal of …
The thesis examines the relationship between Britain’s Jews, both established and refugee, with the host community from 1938 to 1948. The relationship is studied in the light of events in Europe and the Near East from the 1938 Anschluss to the 1948 founding of Israel and the way…
Following the First World War, Britain experienced drastic social and political change. In a period of upheaval, aristocratic women strove to balance social and political changes with centuries of aristocratic tradition. The Mitford sisters provide a unique cross section of fema…
In this dissertation, I study three key aspects related to the causes and consequences of the onset of the Age of the Masses. I do so by drawing evidence from historical natural experiments and historical data from the early Twentieth Century from the United States and Italy.
Premillennial dispensationalism became immensely influential among American Protestants who saw themselves as defenders of orthodoxy. As theological conflict heated up in the early 20th century, dispensationalism’s unique eschatology became one of the characteristic features of …
This paper aims to outline a series of thoughts around the topic of fascist aesthetics. In 1981, Benjamin Buchloh argued that the revival of representational forms after abstraction signaled a political regression toward authoritarianism. It is the hope of this analysis to expan…
Este trabajo aborda, desde el enfoque de la historia intelectual, una de las tantas variantes del antifascismo que surgió en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el unionista centroamericano, a través de las páginas de un periódico antifascista que se publicaba en …
Born May 9th, 1884, Arthur Meulemans’s robust oeuvre of more than 350 compositions has gone largely unnoticed in the 21st Century. As the first conductor of the Belgium National Radio Orchestra, Meulemans played a prominent role in shaping the Belgian musical landscape by embrac…