This volume examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the facist period and will be of interest to historians, political scientists and scholars concerned with the development of facism.
Aaron Gillette is Professor of Liberal Arts at Strayer University and Adjunct Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia.
1. Racial Ideology in Europe and Italy before the Twentieth Century 2. Racial Identity in Italy, 1900-1915 3. Racial Theory and Fascism, 1915-1935 4. The Implementation of Nordic Racism in Italy, 1936-1938 5. Mediterranean Racial Ascendancy, 1939-1940 6. The Struggle for Control, 1940-1942 7. Julius Evola and Nordic Spiritualism, 1941-1943 8. Racial Stalemate and the End of the Regime, 1942-1945