Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period

By Nigel Copsey

Book Overview

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-fascism; A.Olechnowicz PART I: POLITICAL PARTIES Communist Culture and Anti-fascism in Inter-war Britain; T. Linehan 'Every time they made a Communist, they made a Fascist': the Labour Party and Popular Anti-fascism in the 1930s; N.Copsey The Conservative Party, Fascism and Anti-fascism 1918-1939; P.Williamson PART II: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE Varieties of Feminist Responses to Fascism in inter-war Britain; J.Gottlieb 'I was following the lead of Jesus Christ': Christian Anti-fascism in 1930s England; T.Lawson 'It certainly isn't cricket!': Media Responses to Mosley and the BUF; J.Dack Passive and Active Anti-fascism: the State and National Security, 1923-45; R.Thurlow PART III: INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES Anti-fascist Europe comes to Britain: Theorising Fascism as a Contribution to Defeating it; D.Stone Labour Theorises Fascism: A.D. Lindsay and Harold Laski; A.Olechnowicz The Limits of Pro-fascism and Anti-fascism: G.K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant; J.Stapleton PART IV: FINAL PERSPECTIVES Anti-fascism and the Post-war British Establishment; R.Griffiths Conclusion: Towards a New Anti-fascist 'minimum'?; N.Copsey Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349282316
• ISBN13: 9781349282319
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"