The Reclamation of Fascist Culture
Abstract
Roger Griffin The Reclamation of Fascist Culture Alexander De Grand, Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, Lincoln, NE and London, University of Nebraska Press, 3rd edn, 2000; xvi + 191 pp.; 0803266227; 9.95 Jeffrey Schnapp, A Primer of Italian Fascism, Lincoln, NE and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2000; xxi + 325 pp.; 0803292686; 16.95 G.L. Mosse, The Fascist Revolution: Towards a General Theory of Fascism, New York, Howard Fertig, 1998; 230 pp.; 0865274320 Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000; 316 pp.; 0521480159; 40.00, US$64.95 John London (ed.), Theatre under the Nazis, Manchester, Man- chester University Press, 2000; 356 pp.; 0719059917; 17.99 Stanley G. Payne, Fascism in Spain, 19231977, Madison, Uni- versity of Wisconsin Press, 2000; xii + 601 pp.; 0299165647 Tom Linehan, British Fascism, 19181939: Parties, Ideology and Culture, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000; 306 pp.; 0719050243; 15.99 The term bonifica, used originally about 'making good' uninhabit- able, malaria-infested marshes, became a key metaphor under Fascism for the regeneration of Italy. It evoked the purging, re- furbishing and recycling of what was usable in Italy's past and turning it into something new, modern, healthy. Fascist culture was once mostly treated as