"New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45

Jorge Dagnino is Assistant Professor in Modern European History at the Universidad de los Andes, Chile.Matthew Feldman is Professor in the History of Modern Ideas at Teesside University, UK, and co-director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies. Paul Stocker recently submitted his PhD thesis at Teesside University, UK. He is currently Lecturer at Richmond, the American International University in London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Building Illiberal Subjects: The New Man in the Radical Right Universe, 1919-45, Jorge Dagnino (Universidad de los Andes, Chile), Matthew Feldman (Teesside University, UK) and Paul Stocker (Richmond, the American International University in London, UK)Part I - Inaugurating the Radical Right ‘New Man’ in Fascist Italy 1. Totalitarian Pedagogy and the Italian Youth, Luca La Rovere (University of Perugia, Italy)2. Biotypology and Eugenics in Fascist Italy, Francesco Cassata (University of Genova, Italy)3. The Aviator as New Man, Fernando Esposito (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany)Part II - The New Man in Axis Europe4. Eugenic Art: Hitler’s Utopian Aesthetic, Gregory Maertz (St John’s University, USA) 5. Army Educators and the Making of a “Total Man” in Late Fascist Croatia, Rory Yeomans (University of Oxford, UK)6. The “Everyman” of the Portuguese New State during the Fascist Era, Rita Almeida de Carvalho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and António Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Part III – The New Man in Radical Right Regimes beyond Europe7. Peronism: The Consumerist Revolution and the New Argentinean, Alberto Spektorowski (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 8. Envisioning the New Man in 1930s Brazil, Aristotle Kallis (Keele University, UK)9. Japan’s Perennial New Man: The Liberal and Fascist Incarnations of Masamichi Royama, Roy Starrs (University of Otago, New Zealand)Part IV: The ‘New Man’ in European Fascist Movements10. Forging the “New Man” in Fascist Spain during the War and Its Aftermath, 1936-1948, David Alegre Lorenz (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)11. Portraits of the New British Fascist Man, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)12. The Fascist New Man in France, 1919-1945, Joan Tumblety (University of Southampton, UK)13. The Salience of “New Man” Rhetoric in Romanian Fascist Movements, 1922-1944, Roland Clark (University of Liverpool, UK)

Comprising an introduction and 13 chapters (all with extensive notes and bibliography), this volume addresses regimes and radical movements, mainly fascist, in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and Romania, and rightist regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Japan. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.